Demirep vs Adventuress - What's the difference?
demirep | adventuress |
(colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
*1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 569:
*1813 , (Leigh Hunt), in a journal article about the prince.(Chambers, R.. "'The Book of Days': A miscellany of popular antiquities. Londres: W & R Chambers, 1832."
* 1822 , (Thomas de Quincey), :
* 1904 , (Oscar Wilde), :
*:With the mincing step of a demirep / Some sidled up the stairs .
*1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society 2010, p. 65:
*:In this new world, ruled by charlatans and dominated by demireps , Talleyrand may have found much to shock his sense of decorum, but little to outrage his moral standards.
A female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.
A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character who pursues personal advancement, especially by sexual means; a demirep.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 337:
As nouns the difference between demirep and adventuress
is that demirep is a woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress while adventuress is a female adventurer; a woman who seeks adventure.demirep
English
Noun
(en noun)- he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep ; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.
Google Books):
- .
- .
References
*Anagrams
* * *adventuress
English
Noun
(adventuresses)- The ingenious adventuress , who may have become Rohan's mistress, formed a plan to make her fortune out of the cardinal's passion for power and the queen's passion for gems.