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UK
/mˈɪstɹəs/
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[ US /ˈmɪstɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪstɹəs/ ]
NOUN
- a woman master who directs the work of others
- a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
- an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
How To Use mistress In A Sentence
- She is good-hearted and took pity on my pathetic form whenever I was sent to the kitchens by my mistresses.
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
- And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
- It is doubtful if he realized that a parasol is a purely feminine adjunct; -- although the Mistress always declared he did. Further Adventures of Lad
- He replied, “I know not; but thou art better able to judge, being acquainted with the ways of thy man, more by token that thou art one of the sharpest-witted of women and past mistress of devices such as devise that whereof fail the wise.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest. The Bertrams
- I was barely even seventeen yet and so I could not get a job as a schoolmistress or a governess.
- Taking her cue from some of MADONNA's more risque antics, it was pure raunch from the outset, which saw the star sporting a sexy circus mistress's uniform.
- Why do they think they deserve the title mistress? Staar: Whose Transgressions Are Worse, Tiger's or the Women?