Examples of demimonde in a Sentence

a documentary examining the demimonde to which homosexuals were relegated before the start of the gay rights movement

Recent Examples on the Web Finger and Weber talk for an hour or so, spelunking deep into the demimonde with convivial delight. — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021 Runyon’s sense of the racing demimonde, though, promises deeper pleasures on offer. — Max Watman, WSJ, 28 May 2021 With the help of Sonny’s ex-partner, Marty MacChicken, a gun-loving agitator with keen intuition who plays the straight man to the sad-sack and dryly comedic Sonny, the Chicken Police delve into Clawville’s demimonde. — Washington Post, 21 May 2021 Shawishes are the primary brokers between the demimonde of refugees and the aid workers, municipal officials, employers, security agents, and journalists who interact with them. — Alexander Dziadosz, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020 In its day, Cristina’s work was very much a product of its demimonde. — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2020 Getty Images Michou, a flamboyant fixture of the Parisian demimonde who ran France’s most celebrated drag cabaret for more than a half-century, died on Sunday night in a hospital in Saint-Mandé, a suburb of Paris. — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2020 The movie’s a character study of a scene, the Soviet rock demimonde of the early 1980s, with characters based on real people and a deep sense of inside baseball. — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019 The audience is welcomed into the scarlet (for passion) demimonde of Parisian’s legendarily scandalous nightclub: The signature windmill spins in the balcony, on the left, and the mascot elephant sits on the right. — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 25 July 2019

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