Kept woman

"Kept woman" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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.

"I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"

Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.

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