Also known as demimonde, demi-monde, demimondaine
'''''', French for "half-world" is a 19th-century term to describe women on the fringes of respectable society, particularly courtesans supported by wealthy lovers. The term originally derives from an 1855 play called by Alexandre Dumas , which depicted how prostitution challenged the institution of marriage.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).