domina

noun
/ˈdɒmɪnə/UK

Etymology

From Latin domina (“mistress”). Doublet of dame and donna.

  1. borrowed from domina — “mistress

Definitions

  1. The head of a nunnery.

    • Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
  2. A dominatrix.

    • A specific of the fem-dom, sub-male scene is that it is the segment with the highest presence of professional activity -- professional dominae abound.
    • Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization[…]
  3. An ancient Roman lady.

    • A precious article is the paint with which the Roman domina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA