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mistress

[mis-tris] / ˈmɪs trɪs /


NOUN
woman in extramarital relationship
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Vibe: The more than century-old pool at the Annenberg Community Beach House was once part of the seaside mansion that William Randolph Hearst built for his mistress, actress Marion Davies.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 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

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

The ballet mistress Madame Giry, and others, usher the audience groups from room to room, as the narrative follows the spine of the original, although there is considerably less dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 9, 2025

The master and mistress, and their kin, and one child she had borne were in that house—which she did not enter.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

We've been hearing about the unexplained shortfalls sub-postmasters and mistresses were experiencing - but what actually went wrong with the Horizon IT system?

From BBC Apr. 9, 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

If I didn’t succumb to starvation, I would be here for a long time, with hateful mistresses and with Hattie ordering me about.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine




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