mistress of the household
Example Sentences
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She played inscrutable head games with the mistress of the household, my boyfriend’s mother, whom she had known since childhood.
From Slate • Aug. 28, 2015
Blanche Yurka as the mistress of the household, becomes, at times, a tragic figure, notably at the end of Act II when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down.
From Time Magazine Archive
An unmarried woman, living with a father or brother, and acting as mistress of the household, has cards left for her as carefully as the matron.
From Book of Etiquette Volume I by Eichler, Lillian
Hadria couldn’t understand it; especially as the domestic life was arranged, one might almost say, with a special view to promoting musical talent in the mistress of the household.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
He even liked the aunts and the devoted old mistress of the household.
From Majesty A Novel by Couperus, Louis
