mistresshood

English

Etymology

From mistress +‎ -hood.

Noun

mistresshood (uncountable)

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 […]