as in underworld
a social sphere that exists outside of the mainstream
a documentary examining the demimonde of organized crime
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The film’s attitude toward the demimonde of Hong Kong sugar daddies and the models who pretend to love them boils down to a cheeky and rather thoughtless shrug.
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair, which had exposed deep anxieties about who was authentically French, the French government had cracked down on immigrants, anarchists and the demimonde of Montmartre—Picasso’s people.
—Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
In that 1957 film, Tony Curtis portrays Sidney Falco, a cheerfully amoral press agent navigating the cutthroat demimonde of New York’s tabloid press by currying the favor of megalomaniacal columnist J.J. Hunsecker, played with slithery sang-froid by Burt Lancaster.
—Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
Marcus Leatherdale, who made classical portraits of Manhattan’s demimonde in the 1980s — Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, all made their way to his Lower East Side studio — died on April 22 at his home in the state of Jharkhand, India.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
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Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 July 2023
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair, which had exposed deep anxieties about who was authentically French, the French government had cracked down on immigrants, anarchists and the demimonde of Montmartre—Picasso’s people.
—Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
In that 1957 film, Tony Curtis portrays Sidney Falco, a cheerfully amoral press agent navigating the cutthroat demimonde of New York’s tabloid press by currying the favor of megalomaniacal columnist J.J. Hunsecker, played with slithery sang-froid by Burt Lancaster.
—Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2021
Marcus Leatherdale, who made classical portraits of Manhattan’s demimonde in the 1980s — Keith Haring, Andy Warhol and Sydney Biddle Barrows, otherwise known as the Mayflower Madam, all made their way to his Lower East Side studio — died on April 22 at his home in the state of Jharkhand, India.
—New York Times, 4 May 2022
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“Demimonde.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demimonde. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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