kept woman

Acting was still a disreputable profession, but respectable Nelly is reluctant to become his kept woman.

She is like a kept woman,” he says, “She has a strong personality.

Never believe, however disinterested the love of a kept woman may be, that it will cost one nothing.

Evolution, in providence for the perpetuation of the species, has kept woman some thousands of years nearer to animals than man.

She felt that it was herself who was the kept woman and not the other.

In Georgette, I have sketched the life of a kept woman; she ends in a way not likely to attract imitators.

Bacchis, the mistress of the orator Hyperides, illustrates the character of the Athenian kept woman from another point of view.