noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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They had hardly ever been in this house belonging to Nicholas, and never since it received its new mistress .
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And Lily's instinct for the winning side soon tempered her attitude to the new mistress .
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And Bridhe and Seumas Ban would make it plain to everyone that the new mistress had their approval.
old
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Now the grand old masters and mistresses of the day, their works were widely published, exhibited and collected.
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It was as though her old mistress were drunk, or light-headed with laudanum, so intense was her delight.
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She had bid her old mistress farewell the day before.
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The question was, on what footing would she now be with her old mistress ?
young
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Perhaps the presence of her young mistress made her desist from talk.
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When he died aged 85, his young mistress and 10 illegitimate children inherited his money.
■ VERB
become
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We shall go on expeditions to the country, and I shall become the mistress of the house.
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Official concubines became unofficial mistresses , and mistresses became secrets kept from wives.
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She reappeared, according to this, in Geneva, where she has made contact with Dimitri Volkov and became his mistress .
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Mrs Murray has chosen Sir Thomas for her daughter Rosalie, who is not averse to becoming the mistress of his estate.
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How quickly the young girl he remembered had become the capable mistress of a farm!
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After the latter's death in 1947, Kathleen became mistress of his household and his wife in 1954.
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Rudd went on to become Boswell's mistress .
keep
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He kept his mistress in an apartment in Moscow.
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Lovable but passive William has carried on by keeping a mistress on the side, whose existence is acknowledged by all.
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Thomas Jefferson became the third president in 1801 despite published accusations of his seducing two married women and keeping a slave mistress .
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Augustine kept a mistress and sired a son out of wedlock.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Harris claims she was the millionaire's mistress .
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She thought that her husband had a mistress but could not prove it.
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The former prime minister's wife and mistress both attended the funeral.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At midnight Mahendra would ride to his mistress , stay with her until four and then return home.
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He finally married his mistress Kathleen in jail.
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I was taken over one by my History mistress .
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Official concubines became unofficial mistresses, and mistresses became secrets kept from wives.
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She reappeared, according to this, in Geneva, where she has made contact with Dimitri Volkov and became his mistress .