Mistress

Mistress may refer to:

  • Mistress (lover), a woman, other than the spouse, with whom a married individual has a continuing sexual relationship
  • Schoolmistress, or female school teacher (also called a "schoolmarm"); see schoolmaster
  • A dominatrix in BDSM

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Famous quotes containing the word mistress:

    “Trying to avoid
    Ideas, as in this poem? But we
    Go back to them as to a wife, leaving
    The mistress we desire?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “God bless the master of this house,
    Likewise the mistress too:”
    —Unknown. God Bless the Master of This House (l. 1–2)

    “Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)