demireps

All the high and low demireps of the town gathered there, from his Grace of Ancaster down to my countryman, poor Mr. Oliver Goldsmith the poet, and from the

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

So they went on talking about dancers, fights, drinking, demireps, until Macmurdo came down and joined the boys and the conversation.

Vanity Fair 2006

She was from Greenwich herself, and that was the closest she ever came to France, but no matter; in the world of the demireps, you can be what you wish to be.

Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

Tonight they were going to an informal gathering at the home of Harriette Wilson, queen of the London demireps, and for the first time Diana would be offering herself in the market.

Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

All of the males present were rich or titled or fashionable, often all three, while the females were the cr@eme de la cr@eme of the demireps.

Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

Just as a beautiful woman was a prize that a man could parade before his fellows, the demireps flaunted their own conquests to each other.

Dearly Beloved Putney, Mary Jo 1990

It contains within itself a complete gradation from fashionable excellence to fashionable villany; from fashionable virtue to fashionable vice; fashionable ladies and gentlemen, fashionable pimps, demireps, and profligates.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

Equally at home in the company of princes and poets and diplomats and demireps, during the twenty years she was before the public she had scaled heights and sunk to depths.

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

The demireps of the deadline had been banished over the Klondike, where, in a colony reached by a crazy rope bridge, their red lights gleamed like semaphores of sin.

The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

From the time when, at Madame Cornelys ', he gallivanted with rips and demireps, to the time when he sat, a stout and solitary old king, fishing in the artificial pond at Windsor, his life was beautifully ordered.

The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914