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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

At one point, they came upon previously unseen photographs from Saar’s early career as a costume mistress.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 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

In 1903, she and her friend Dorelia McNeill, who was also Augustus's mistress, returned to France via Bordeaux with the intention of walking all the way to Rome.

From BBC Feb. 7, 2026

Lazlo knew the name already: goddess of oblivion, mistress of forgetting.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Kim Jong Il also had two other mistresses aside from Ko: Sung Hae-rim and Kim Ok.

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

Descended from King Charles II and one of his mistresses, Richmond numbered among those aristocratic Whigs who dominated the British parliament in the 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

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

Now that wasn’t the way on all plantations; there were good masters and mistresses, as I’ve heard tell, but I didn’t happen to come across any of them.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry




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