semifame
nounEtymology From semi- + fame.
1
Informal Minor fame.
- He was most excited about the festival’s obscurities, like the series of Latin American and Spanish films, his latest passions, and the appearance by the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, the Texas wild man whose brief moment of semifame, the 1968 single “Paralyzed,” inspired Mr. Bowie’s glam-era alter ego, Ziggy Stardust.2007 May 7, Ben Sisario, “Chosen by David Bowie, Shows That He’d Attend”, in New York Times: