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fancy woman
n
slang a mistress or prostitute
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mis•tress
(ˈmɪs trɪs)n.
1. a woman who has authority, esp. the female head of a household or the like.
2. a woman employing servants or attendants.
3. a female owner of an animal, or formerly, a slave.
4. a woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a usu. married man who provides her with financial support.
5. a woman who has possession or control of something: mistress of a great fortune.
6. a woman who is skilled in an occupation or art.
7. (sometimes cap.) something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy: England, mistress of the seas.
8. (cap.) (formerly) a term of address corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.
9. Brit. a female schoolteacher.
10. Archaic. sweetheart.
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Noun | 1. | ![]() bawd, cocotte, cyprian, harlot, lady of pleasure, prostitute, sporting lady, tart, whore, woman of the street, working girl call girl - a female prostitute who can be hired by telephone camp follower - a prostitute who provides service to military personnel comfort woman, ianfu - a woman forced into prostitution for Japanese servicemen during World War II; "she wrote a book about her harsh experiences as a comfort woman" demimondaine - a woman whose sexual promiscuity places her outside respectable society floozie, floozy, hustler, slattern, street girl, streetwalker - a prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets white slave - a woman sold into prostitution adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
2. | ![]() lover - a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted" |
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fancy woman
n (old) (pej) → amicaCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995