Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
kept woman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Which same meant, thought Markby, that he was saying Harriet wasn't a kept woman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kept woman
kept \kept\ (k[e^]pt), imp. & p. p. of Keep.
Kept woman, Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported by a man as his paramour.
Wiktionary
kept woman
n. A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
WordNet
kept woman
n. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: mistress, fancy woman]