mistresshood
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Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
mistresshood (uncountable)
- 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 […]