Mistress (lover)

Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, c. 1756

A mistress or kept woman is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with someone who is married to a different person.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Mistress definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  2. ^ "MISTRESS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 20 August 2020.