kept woman
Example Sentences
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What grounds it is Hazel’s journey from kept woman to action hero, determined not to be a character in somebody else’s love story.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021
We get no more information than she does, as the film immediately drops us into the disorientation of Jean’s world as the kept woman of a man we soon learn is some kind of gangster.
From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2020
Emma Watson took one of her infrequent acting jobs to breathe new life into Belle, making the kept woman into something sturdier.
From The Guardian • Jul. 22, 2019
Part of it is that I don't want to be a kept woman.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2013
The other convict, named Riganson, and his kept woman, known as la Biffe, were a most formidable couple, members of the swell-mob.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Balzac, Honoré de
