Posted on 01/08/2014 5:02:12 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
Word For The Day, Wednesday, January 8, 2014-- demimonde
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
demimonde [dem-ee-mond, French: duh-mee-mawnd]
noun
1. (esp in the 19th century) those women considered to be outside respectable society, esp on account of sexual promiscuity
2. any social group considered to be not wholly respectable.
3. prostitutes or courtesans in general.
4. a group whose activities are ethically or legally questionable: a demimonde of investigative journalists writing for the sensationalist tabloids.
5. a group characterized by lack of success or status: the literary demimonde.
Origin:
[C19: from French, literally: half-world]
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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
Some of our college students have not mastered that skill yet. (Check out the number of young males found dead in the rivers around college campi.)
P.S. The only eye of the beholder victim,is the one beheld by a statist.
Omg, insurance companies pay out. Out law big gulps!
As I said, once you need to extend victimization, beyond the first person, you’ve conceded the argument.
Not the point. If it’s outlawed it is hidden. Cars are great hiding places.
Dave, here is the sign of a losing argument.
When you argue fundamental positions, and the others side deflects.
Like libs and gun control.
You’re arguing, I’m stating my opinion. Your arguments are not persuasive. Call me what you will, demean my intellect and my integrity, it matters not to me. So my opinion is a LOSER, oh ok. I’ll live somehow.
I’ve never demeaned your opinion. I would never do such a thing here, to anyone.
But since you painted me with that brush, i would say, a fair reading of the thread, says..I merely asked that you state which side you come down on.
But, since I don’t wish to irk you, we will presume it is the status quo ante.
We had to be careful or we would be caught by someone’s parents if they were awakened-and in a rural area, all our parents would have known by morning and we would all have been in dire straits-it breeds caution.
Demimonde - what Demi Moore did after she lost Mr. Buzzy.
A++
it’s likely Demi Monde while using Miss Buzzy.
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