(n.) Persons of doubtful reputation; esp., women who are kept as mistresses, though not public prostitutes; demireps.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Velvet Underground’s sinisterly thrilling, entirely unapologetic musical portraits of New York’s gay, drug-taking demimonde must have seemed overwhelming to a British suburban kid in the late 60s.
(2) San Andreas gave gamers not one city to explore but three, all of them set in the hip-hop demimonde of California in the early 1990s (though one of the cities is a Vegas clone).
(3) Our focus was strictly on the Manhattan media demimonde.
Protector
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron.
(n.) One having the care of the kingdom during the king's minority; a regent.
(n.) A cardinal, from one of the more considerable Roman Catholic nations, who looks after the interests of his people at Rome; also, a cardinal who has the same relation to a college, religious order, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(2) A physical grading of some well-known sunburn protectors is described as a guide to the choice of preparation.
(3) Out of 50 consecutive untreated patients with diffuse toxic goitre 15 showed long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS), 30 showed LATS protector only, and five showed neither.
(4) GTP protected photolabeling with an apparent kd of 15 microM, whereas ATP was less effective as a protector, exhibiting an apparent kd of about 30 microM.
(5) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(6) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(7) Thanksgiving this year should be a worldwide celebration to honor the water protectors and recognize the spiritual battle that has sustained us since the arrival of Columbus,” said Cheryl Angel, a Sicangu Lakota.
(8) By 1894, Uganda was a British protectorate and stayed that way for nearly 70 years.
(9) Rachel forgave them and then set up a "protectorate" for them where she lived until she died in 1994.
(10) Binaural detection thresholds in quiet were measured with and without the protectors worn at the initial insertion and after a period of one to one and one-half hours during which lunch was eaten.
(11) Since cyclic AMP levels were unchangd in the spleen or gut by administration of cysteamine and other protectors it is unlikely that the increase in preotection was due to changes in cyclic AMP levles.
(12) She is Odysseus's protector in the Odyssey, on hand to provide magical disguises or pep-talks.
(13) The amounts of Fon acquired by the enamel surface (one application) rank as APF gel approximately Duraphat much less than Fluor Protector.
(14) We report here that the five published leader RNA sequences contain an additional potential region of secondary structure, which we call the "protector."
(15) The mixture of chemical protectors failed to show modification of long-term radiation effects with regard to either life span or tumor incidence.
(16) In practical use, the patient can breathe more comfortably with the protectors in place (Fig.
(17) We cannot afford to let them treat us like properties of the state,” said Ollie, a 24-year-old water protector whose partner, Michael Markus, known as Rattler, was recently taken into custody by federal officers.
(18) This paper reviews various methods that have been used to measure and rate the performance characteristics of hearing protectors.
(19) An ACBPS spokesman said: “No evidence presented to the review indicated officers on the ACV Ocean Protector knew the correct location of archipelagic baselines.
(20) In contrast to 2'-deosyxycytidine molecular solution, which reduced all toxic manifestations and protected animals from death, the corpuscular form of the protector only the toxic effect of the antimetabolite on the intestine without affecting other toxic manifestations, the inhibition of hemopoiesis in particular.