mistress

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

It’s hard to imagine his administration being competent enough to fake such actions without at least one conspiracist letting the secret out, even by drunkenly bragging about it to a would-be mistress.

From Salon ● May 13, 2026

The man explained that he had a problem - he wants to leave his British wife to live with his mistress.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

Chinyere’s mistress was only one of many families on campus who were leaving; houseboys bought huge cartons in the market and cars drove out of compounds with their boots sunken by heavy loads.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Kim Jong Il also had two other mistresses aside from Ko: Sung Hae-rim and Kim Ok.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

Descended from King Charles II and one of his mistresses, Richmond numbered among those aristocratic Whigs who dominated the British parliament in the 18th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

So there was this constant contradiction in their lives, but ultimately they were not the mistresses of their own destinies.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024

Now that wasn’t the way on all plantations; there were good masters and mistresses, as I’ve heard tell, but I didn’t happen to come across any of them.”

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry