mistresshood

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mistress +‎ -hood

Noun[edit]

mistresshood (uncountable)

  1. The role or status of a mistress.
    • 1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse, page 85:
      Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […]
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