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mistresshood

mistresshood noun: the role or status of a mistress.

Noun

mistresshood (uncountable)

  1. The role or status of a mistress.
    • Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader […]1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse, page 85

Origin of mistresshood

From mistress + -hood.

Questions about mistresshood

What does mistresshood mean?
Mistresshood means the role or status of a mistress.
What part of speech is mistresshood?
Mistresshood is a noun.

Words near mistresshood in the dictionary

  1. mistressdom
  2. mistresse
  3. mistressed
  4. mistresses
  5. mistresses of the robes
  6. mistresshood
  7. mistressing
  8. mistressless
  9. mistressly
  10. mistressmind
  11. mistressminded

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