demi-monde


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
demi-monde /ˌdɛmɪˈmɒnd/
noun a group considered to be on the fringes of respectable society.
– origin C19: Fr. (orig. with ref. to 19th-cent. France and the class of women considered morally dubious), lit. ‘half-world’.
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