Sentence:  Those who seek pleasure in a round of dances and fashionable frolic, where the german and the horse-race, the card-table and the drive, are the order of the day, will gather to the sea side and the spa; they will seek Newport, the maelstrom of money; or Long Branch with its broiling sun and its retinue of <WSD>demimondes</WSD> and stuck-up-ities; ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of such a class or group of persons.