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mistress

[mis-tris] / ˈmɪs trɪs /


NOUN
woman in extramarital relationship
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He enrolled Morishita with a strict and formidable ballet mistress called Michiko Suwa.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

In fact, he has two other wives and a mistress - who are all there dressed in black.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

Keaton plays that mistress, Mary Wilkie, and her depiction of the witty, wry, journalist with a robust social calendar and strong opinions that she never hesitates to express, is among her most seminal performances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025

Green mamba, mistress of camouflage, agility, aggressiveness, and speed.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

Under Holinshed's assertion that Richard the Lionheart was "not very notorious," Milton added: "the booke of Provenzall poets numbers him in / the catalogue, telling of his poetrie, and his Provenzal / mistresses."

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024

So there was this constant contradiction in their lives, but ultimately they were not the mistresses of their own destinies.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024

The newspaper reported that four former detectives are interviewing persecuted postmasters and mistresses, trying to learn about how they were treated by the Post Office employees who built cases against them.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024

Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath




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