kept woman

noun

Etymology

From kept + woman.

  1. inherited from wīfmann
  2. inherited from womman
  3. compounded as kept woman — “kept + woman

Definitions

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