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  1. mistressesnoun

    Plural form of mistress.

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  1. Mistresses

    Mistresses is a British serial drama television programme that follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships. The programme was written by Rachel Pole, Richard Warlow, Harriet Braun and Catrin Clarke and filmed in Bristol by Ecosse Films for BBC Drama, Wales. The first series was broadcast on BBC One from 8 January to 12 February 2008 in a six-episode run. A second series of six episodes aired from 17 February to 24 March 2009. Mistresses returned for a third and final series comprising four episodes on 5 August 2010.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mistresses in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mistresses in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of mistresses in a Sentence

  1. Stendhal:

    Since I am a man, my heart is three or four times less sensitive, because I have three or four times as much power of reason and experience of the world -- a thing which you women call hard-heartedness. As a man, I can take refuge in having mistresses. The more of them I have, and the greater the scandal, the more I acquire reputation and brilliance in society.

  2. George Moore:

    If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

  3. William Wycherley:

    Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

  4. H.H. Munro (Saki):

    Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.

  5. Francis Bacon:

    Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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