mistress
情妇,女主人,女主人公,情妇们
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Definitions
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- : a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
- : a female owner of enslaved people, in the institution of chattel slavery; a female slaveholder: Her father’s last will and testament made her mistress of his slaves after his death in 1837.
- : a female owner of a pet or other animal: That horse can only be handled by his mistress and a few of the grooms.
- : Older Use. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants: The maid laid out two outfits every morning so that her mistress might choose the one that best suited her mood.
- : the dominant sexual partner, when female, in a BDSM relationship of unequal power.
- : a woman who has the power of controlling or disposing of something at her own pleasure: mistress of a great fortune.
- : something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy: Great Britain, the mistress of the seas.
- : a woman who is skilled in something, as an occupation or art.
- : a woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, especially a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support.
- : British. a female schoolteacher; schoolmistress.
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Examples
Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said that even after Watts was convicted, people sent angry emails about the killer dad’s mistress not being prosecuted, too.
For decades, Israel was the mistress every nation wanted to be with in private but didn’t necessarily want to acknowledge in public because of its treatment of Palestinians.
Her Catholic father, Baron Maximilian von Schoenebeck, drank only the finest wine, collected rare antiques and preferred his mistresses beautiful but not too intelligent.
It’s while staying at the sober-living facility that Wendy learns Kevin and his mistress are having a child, a betrayal that leads her to decisively end their marriage — and their business relationship.
When I proposed to draw on these stories and do a profile of Greene for Playboy magazine, he gave me the go-ahead, with the proviso that I not mention his last mistress, Yvonne Cloetta.
He said, too, that after being accepted as a slave to Mistress Couple, he has made massive strides psychologically.
After a stint with a replacement Head Mistress went sour, R seriously considered shutting down La Domaine for good.
And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
Head mistress Jean Harris is the ultimate proof of “Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned.”
On top of the pleasure (or pain), the clients who saw Mistress Carla received their own additional perks.