For a little reputation at a dinner table, for a coaxing nobe from some titled Demirep affecting the De Stael, they forget not only to be glorious but even to be respectable.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Most bloody awful Demirep!
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
That Messalina was in the habit of stealing forth from the imperial palace at night to occupy a booth in a brothel as a common Demirep under the name of Lycisca is almost too improbable for credence.
"Roman Women Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 2 (of 10)"
Alfred Brittain