Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a mistress, as of a household.
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Examples
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On Thursday's Woman's Hour, Jenni Murray conducted a masterly – mistressly – interview with Kate McCann.
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Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily discharged?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Will he take from me the mistressly management, which I had not faultily discharged?
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 Samuel Richardson 1725
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Sister Kinderhook, and on blood red gems like "Holocaust of Giants" and "This, My Porcelain Life," it mistressly blends sweet singing, harsh buzz, spoken word segues, and a one-woman blitzkrieg string section as the phalanx.
Three Imaginary Girls - Seattle's sparkly indie-pop press 2010
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Annie had forgotten to ask her name of Mrs. Bolton, and she asked it in vain of the child herself, with a great variety of circumlocution; she was so unused to children that she was ashamed to invent any pet name for her; she called her, in what she felt to be a stiff and school-mistressly fashion, "Little Girl," and talked on at her, growing more and more nervous herself without perceiving that the child's condition was approaching a climax.
Annie Kilburn : a Novel William Dean Howells 1878
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