mistress
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She studied the craft in college, performed on a USO tour in Vietnam and worked as a costume mistress.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
"You chose to take your final flight in my arms on the evening of May 14, to join your mistress who loved you so much," she said.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
The ballet mistress Madame Giry, and others, usher the audience groups from room to room, as the narrative follows the spine of the original, although there is considerably less dialogue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025
After two-and-a-half hours, the show ends with Gaga announcing she has defeated the "mistress of mayhem".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
For years she had dreamed of being the mistress of so splendid a house.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
Kim Jong Il also had two other mistresses aside from Ko: Sung Hae-rim and Kim Ok.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Under Holinshed's assertion that Richard the Lionheart was "not very notorious," Milton added: "the booke of Provenzall poets numbers him in / the catalogue, telling of his poetrie, and his Provenzal / mistresses."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
It told the story of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses who were wrongly convicted due to faulty software.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2024
My progress in all my subjects astounded the mistresses.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Vocabulary lists containing mistress
"The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" (Excerpt 3)
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 2
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