Who watches Oprah or Walters anymore?
Anyway, a woman I know has been carrying on a marital affair for over 20 years and calls her married lover her "significant over". What a load of crap.
Oprah and Walters may have not been "kept" women, but they were definitely mistresses.
Main Entry: mis·tress
Pronunciation: \ˈmis-trəs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English maistresse, from Anglo-French mestresse, feminine of mestre master — more at master
Date: 14th century
1: a woman who has power, authority, or ownership: as a: the female head of a household b: a woman who employs or supervises servants c: a woman who is in charge of a school or other establishment d: a woman of the Scottish nobility having a status comparable to that of a master
2 achiefly British : a female teacher or tutor b: a woman who has achieved mastery in some field
3: something personified as female that rules, directs, or dominates <when Rome was mistress of the world>
4 a: a woman other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship barchaic : sweetheart5 a—used archaically as a title prefixed to the name of a married or unmarried woman bchiefly Southern & Midland : mrs. 1a
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