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• n  a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society

• Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions .
• A charming, competent demimondaine blackmails her way into the business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post.
• Never give your heart to a demimondaine: she'll chew it up and spit it out.