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Kept woman

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).

    "He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ." "I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she."

  2. 2
    an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man wordnet

Etymology

From kept + woman.

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