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mistresshood

noun

Etymology

From mistress + -hood.

  1. derived from maistresse
  2. inherited from maistresse
  3. suffixed as mistresshood — “mistress + hood”

Definitions

  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 […]

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