📚 noun • entry_id 38296
kept woman
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mantenida
A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
"I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"
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 bel…
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