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Demimondaine Woman N Fringes Respectable Society Supported Wealthy

Word demimondaine
Definition n. A woman on the fringes of respectable society supported by a wealthy lover.
Sentence In Proust's long novel La recherche, Swann, a socially sophisticated Jewish art dealer, falls for Odette, a demimondaine, a "kept" woman of sorts, a semi- or perhaps just a quarter-prostitute; she treats him badly.
Source Antifragile, Nicholas Nassim Taleb

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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