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Mistress en · NOUN
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(archaic) Used as the title of a married woman before her name. Now used only in the abbreviated form Mrs.
The sound of Mistress Affery cautiously chaining the door before she opened it, caused them both to look that way.
1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “The Dreams of Mrs. Flintwinch Thicken”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 2nd book (Riches), page 408:Mistress Cordelia Carfax shivered and gathered her silk shawl about her shoulders. […] Any shows of affection Mistress Carfax did display were usually reserved for her pedigree pug.
2014, Tessa Harris, chapter 5, in The Lazarus Curse (A Dr. Thomas Silkstone Mystery; 4), New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 25:
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Used as the title of a female dominant.
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Master · Mxtress · Missus · Mister