demireps

Noun

demirep (plural demireps)

1. (colloquial, dated) A woman of doubtful reputation or suspected character; an adventuress.
   • he had no knowledge of that character which is vulgarly called a demirep; that is to say, a woman who intrigues with every man she likes, under the name and appearance of virtue [...] in short, whom everybody knows to be what nobody calls her.1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 569