Mistresshood

Origin

en + -mistress + hood

Full definition of mistresshood

Noun

1. The role or status of a mistress.
• 1999, Kathleen A. Washington, The Harlot's Curse (page 85)Bertha's madness represents the limit case of mistresshood — the worst possible end of a dependent and degrading marriage — but its more gruesome aspects work, paradoxically, to distract the reader ...