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Lorettes, courtezans. Le beau monde means “fashionable society,” and demi-monde the society only half acknowledged.
“Demi-monde implies not only recognition and a status, but a certain social standing.”—Saturday Review.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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