demimonde

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɛmiːmɒnd/    美 /ˈdɛmiˌmɑnd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A class of women maintained by wealthy protectors; female courtesans or prostitutes as a group.
    — A most remarkable instance of this was afforded in the play of Camille by the performance of the supper-scene. The stage in this scene is supposed to represent a supper-room, enlivened by the presence of a party of young Parisians, more gay, indeed, than respectable, but still Parisians, and Parisians of the demimonde, which, of the two halves that go to make up the whole of the monde, preserves the hemisphere of manners while it throws away the hemisphere of decorum.
  2. A group having little respect or reputation. broadly
    — the literary demimonde
  3. A member of such a class or group of persons. broadly
    — Those who seek pleasure in a round of dances and fashionable frolic, where the german and the horse-race, the card-table and the drive, are the order of the day, will gather to the sea side and the spa; they will seek Newport, the maelstrom of money; or Long Branch with its broiling sun and its retinue of demimondes and stuck-up-ities; […]

词形变化

demimondes plural demi-monde alternative

词汇关系

相关词
demimondain demimondaine
并列词
beau monde

词源

Borrowed from French demi-monde (literally “half-world”), from demi (“half”) + monde (“world; people”); possibly coined by French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils as the title of a comedic play, Le Demi Monde (1855): see the quotation from 1864.
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