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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

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

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

"You chose to take your final flight in my arms on the evening of May 14, to join your mistress who loved you so much," she said.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

Though she now occupied the side of the bed left vacant by her former mistress, the dog knew she could never pass as a viable replacement.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

A dramatisation of the long-running legal controversy with hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses wrongly accused of stealing from the Post Office.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2024

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

Masters and mistresses in degrees of wickedness, estates of disparate means and ambition.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead


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