mistresshood
English
Etymology
mistress + -hood
Noun
mistresshood (uncountable)
- The role or status of a mistress.
- 1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse (page 85)
- 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 […]
- 1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse (page 85)