Answer: DEMIMONDE
The answer DEMIMONDE has 13 possible clues. See the results below.
Possible Clues:
- Literally "half world"
- One dimmed switch for shady section
- Mistresses minded home naughtily -- no husband in sight
- US politician working in dome for shady group
- Women of easy virtue acted up and conned men regularly
- Mom denied coming from such a disreputable class
- Loose women pretended to play around with one outside front of disco
- Courtesan
- Not wholly respectable group dressed in denim mode
- Mistresses of half the world in France