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mistress
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Mistress is a stand-alone James Patterson novel, as it is not part any of the series novels written by Patterson.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistress \Mis"tress\, v. i. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "female teacher, governess," from Old French maistresse "mistress (lover); housekeeper; governess, female teacher" (Modern French maîtresse ), fem. of maistre "master" (see master (n.)). Sense of "a woman who employs others or has authority ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: kept woman , fancy woman ] a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm , schoolma'am , schoolmistress ] a woman master who ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
Usage examples of mistress.
The mistress of the house was fond of ready-made phrases, and she adopted this one, about Julien, very pleased at having invited an academician to dine with them.
I cannot refrain from expressing my admiration for the wonderful, I might almost say adorable, being who wants to convince you that you are truly his mistress.
Any lover who knows what his feelings were when he found himself with the woman he adored and with the fear that it was for the last time, will easily imagine my feelings during the last hours that I expected ever to spend with my two charming mistresses.
I could kiss neither of them, since one passed for my niece, and my sense of humanity would not allow me to treat Marcoline as my mistress in the presence of an unfortunate brother who adored her, and had never obtained the least favour from her.
Well, now both archers and Alaunt were heading back to their mistress.
Clinton told Panetta upon hearing the news that Reno had asked for another independent counsel, this time to investigate his friend and Housing secretary Henry Cisneros for allegedly lying to the FBI about payments made to a former mistress.
Look, Lackwit hath learned that he truly lacks wit, and that Amoroso and Belinda are about to sing their love duet to signify that the play is over, and that he was cuckolded before he even wed his Mistress and made her wife!
The Epilogue over, Mistress Dubois, Betterton, and the pretty boy who played Amoroso linked hands and were bowing to the audience, which was on its feet again, applauding the actors.
The chief actress, one Mistress Cleone Dubois playing Belinda, was on the stage being reconciled to her husband, Amoroso, after having discomforted Lackwit in no uncertain fashion.
A great enemy to all jealous persons, and a greater friend to my amorous fancies, I wrote to the young girl that, if she would leave her cousin for me, I would give her a house in which she should be the mistress, and that I would surround her with good society and with every luxury to be found in Venice.
When I went to bed I did not find my mistress in any amorous transports, but in a wanton and merry mood.
I embraced the lover, and then more amorously I performed the same office for the mistress, and skewed them my purse full of gold, telling them it was at their service.
With the ageing mistress sick at Anet some said dyingthat tension must increase.
Caepio Junior would have been appalled if she had moaned in ecstasy or thrown herself around in the bed as if she enjoyed herself in the manner of a mistress.
Gods thought to outwit him, Mistresses of the Labyrinth thought to deceive him, and Asterion was a step ahead of all of them.