kept woman
nounEtymology
From kept + woman.
Definitions
A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
- He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ." "I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.
- "I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for kept woman. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA