kept woman

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(old-fashioned, usually humorous) a woman who is given money and a home by a man who visits her regularly to have sex

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

kept womanEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary kept womanEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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