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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Date: 19960101
Author:T. F. HOAD
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class of women of doubtful reputation. XIX. — F., ‘half-world’ (Alexandre Dumas fils, 1855, who used the term for the kind of society midway between the conventional respectable life and the life of licence and vice).Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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