The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The result is that midlife crises have become a lot less wild: fewer mistresses and motorcycles and more medical visits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Under Holinshed's assertion that Richard the Lionheart was "not very notorious," Milton added: "the booke of Provenzall poets numbers him in / the catalogue, telling of his poetrie, and his Provenzal / mistresses."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
So there was this constant contradiction in their lives, but ultimately they were not the mistresses of their own destinies.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2024
The newspaper reported that four former detectives are interviewing persecuted postmasters and mistresses, trying to learn about how they were treated by the Post Office employees who built cases against them.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
"I should not mind it, for it is a long, long chain; but the knowledge of it irks me, and I miss my father's land. And the witch-woman is not the best of mistresses...."
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
