demimondaine:

Or: demi-mondaine :

1. A woman belonging to the demimonde , a class of women of questionable respectability who grant-sexual-favors to men of wealth, power, and influence. See also: gold-digger .

2. A semi-professional prostitute ; defined by Henry Fielding in Tom Jones (1749) as a woman : ' whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her '. See prostitute for synonyms.

See Also: demimonde

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