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  • noun Plural form of mistress.

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Examples

  • Understand that I grew up the daughter of a culture-mad German mother who, when we traveled abroad, would wheedle ballet mistresses from the Kirov into giving my siblings and me private instruction (plying them, if need be, with eclairs and cigarettes), dragged us to Giselle 17 times, and forced us to take piano lessons.

    Tales Out of School 2008

  • Understand that I grew up the daughter of a culture-mad German mother who, when we traveled abroad, would wheedle ballet mistresses from the Kirov into giving my siblings and me private instruction (plying them, if need be, with eclairs and cigarettes), dragged us to Giselle 17 times, and forced us to take piano lessons.

    Tales Out of School 2008

  • How was sexuality less cheap hundreds of years ago when wives were the chattle of their husbands, when wives could be legally beaten for any reason, including refusing to "service" their husbands, when it was perfectly normal for husbands to maintain mistresses to fulfill the sexual needs that often were lacking in these arranged marriages, and when women were punished extremely harshly, even fatally, for engaging in the same adulterous behavior?

    Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs? 2006

  • Residents are overwhelmingly long-term mistresses, or moonlighting wanna-bes on the lookout for a well-heeled man to keep them.

    Second Wives Club 2007

  • Try to stick to one partner, but if you have to keep your long-term mistresses and concubines and extra wives, at least avoid short-term casual encounters with bar girls and prostitutes.

    God and the Fight Against AIDS Epstein, Helen 2005

  • Eden himself had cried off long-term mistresses ever since the last one, who had been with him for over a year and had been devilish difficult to cast off.

    Irresistible Balogh, Mary 1998

  • To ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggres'sion of love, he would meet each of his long-term mistresses only at intervals.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • I speak to two educated women, who turn out to be High School mistresses from a town that has been several times visited by Zeppelins.

    England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend 1916

  • A married alpha male in contrast locks up his wife and long-term mistresses, and knowing most alpha males, the women who are locked up aren't 4 and 5s, but 8s and 9s.

    Roissy in DC 2008

  • i hope one of his mistresses is in on the phone with cnn right now. what a fool.

    Think Progress » VIDEO: Inhofe ‘Very Proud’ There’s Never Been a Homosexual Relationship in the ‘Recorded History of Our Family’ 2006

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