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mistress of the house

noun as in woman of the house

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As soon as the mistress of the house passed, her husband took ill.

Two sisters, Christine and Léa Papin, who worked as maids, had murdered the mistress of the house and her daughter.

A maid with a secret arrives there, only to find more secrets: a strange, silent mistress of the house who sits motionless in icy-cold rooms; a housemaid obsessed with malevolent fairies; a strange history slowly unfolded.

She is the mistress of the house inspecting the work of others.

Dona Beatriz was bustling back and forth between parlor and kitchen, issuing orders, chivying the slaves, gathering up clean tablecloths and napkins, and dictating shopping lists; in short, dealing with the thousand and one things that every mistress of the house has to deal with, especially on such an important day.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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