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‖ maîtresse|mɛtrɛs|
[Fr., mistress.]
Used in phrases, as maîtresse en titre [lit. ‘mistress in name’], an official or acknowledged mistress; maîtresse femme, a strong-willed or domineering woman.
1839Thackeray Catherine in Fraser's Mag. July 104/1 We had a great mind to make..Mrs. Catherine maîtresse en titre to Mr. Alexander Pope. 1853C. Brontë Villette III. xxxii. 83 Ah! I know you well..cette maîtresse-femme, my cousin Beck herself. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xxii. 179 There are four kinds of wives—the cowed woman, the dead-weight, the maîtresse femme, and the helpmeet. 1925W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo xix. 240 She had been the maîtresse en titre of one of his friends. 1929S. Runciman Emperor Romanus Lecapenus ii. 42 At first Leo did not dare to marry her: though he took her to the Palace as an acknowledged maîtresse en titre. 1929C. L. Thomson Jane Austen i. 50 The wonderful heroine [of Corinne], a maîtresse femme like Mme de Staël herself. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 9 July 544/1 She tells of..dwarf, and cicisbeo, and maîtresse en titre. 1936G. B. Shaw Millionairess Pref. 105 In the humblest cabin that contains a family you may find a maitresse femme who rules in the household by a sort of divine right. Ibid. 107 Queen Elizabeth was a maitresse femme. 1953M. Steen Anna Fitzalan iii. 72 For two and a half years Anna fulfilled..the functions of a nurse, as well as those of a maîtresse en titre of Evan's household. 1964Guardian 26 Oct. 16/8 An accredited speech-writer is, like a ‘maitresse en titre’, an offence to public morals. 1973D. Chandler Marlborough i. 5 Arabella [Churchill] was..combining the roles of maid-of-honour to the Duchess and maîtresse-en-titre to the Duke, to whom she bore several children. 1973E. Hyams Final Agenda viii. 98 The widow was a maîtresse femme whose place in the hierarchy was three steps higher than that of her..husband. |