Domina
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈdɒmɪnə/
Origin
From Latin domina ("mistress").
Full definition of domina
Noun
domina
(plural dominas)- The head of a nunnery.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 29:Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with the domina in the adjoining vestry.
- A dominatrix.
- 1997, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham, Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives (page 294)Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos of dominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization...
- 2004, Pamela Church Gibson, More dirty looks: gender, pornography and powerDominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M...