mistress
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He acquired Anthony van Dyck’s highly finished portrait of his mistress, Margaret Lemon, c.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
He and William pleaded with him not to marry his long-term mistress and now queen, Camilla, Harry revealed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
In fact, he has two other wives and a mistress - who are all there dressed in black.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
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
“Never mind, I’ll get the dinner and be servant, you be mistress, keep your hands nice, see company, and give orders,” said Jo, who knew still less than Meg about culinary affairs.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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
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
Lee Castleton, a former sub-postmaster, in a recorded video message asks Davey who had told him not to engage with the JFSA, the organisation acting on behalf of sub-postmasters and mistresses, and Alan Bates.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 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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