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- French · borrowed fromdemi-monde
- English todaydemimonde
Borrowed from French demi-monde (literally “half-world”), from demi (“half”) + monde (“world; people”); possibly coined by French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas fils as the title of a comedic play, Le Demi Monde (1855): see the quotation from 1864.
Words from the same roots
Frenchdemi-monde all →
demiworldhalf-world
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.