mistress

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  1. noun A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a usually married man who is not her husband and from whom she generally receives material support.
  2. noun A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household: "Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall” (Jane Austen).
  3. noun A woman who owns or keeps an animal: a cat sitting in its mistress's lap.
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  • I considered remonstrating with her, but at once abandoned such an imprudent course, for my mistress is amenable to restraint only in certain of her moods. —  River God
  • 'Both your reputation and that of my mistress is at stake.' —  River God
  • The child and the promise that he had wrung from my mistress were his hope of immortality. —  River God
  • During this ritual, my mistress was able to restrain her grief and to show nothing more than the decent sorrow of a queen towards a faithful servant, although I knew that inside her something was dying that would never be reborn. —  River God
  • Any man who kept a mistress was awomaniser. —  The Sheikh's Innocent Bride
 

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  1. Middle English maistresse, from Old French, feminine of maistre, master, from Latin magister; see master.

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  1. Formerly also mistres, mistris, misteris; from Middle English maistresse, mastresse, from Old French maistresse, French maîtresse = Italian maestressa, from Middle Latin magistressa, magistrissa, magistrix (for L. magistra), feminine of Latin magister, master, chief: see mister, master. In familiar use the word has been contracted to missis or missus, a form regarded as vulgar except when written Mrs. and used as a title, correlated to Mr.: see missis. The term is also abbreviated Miss, especially as a title, now of different signification from Mrs.: see miss.
  2. from mistress, n.
 

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