kept woman

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kept woman

kumppani, jalkavaimo, kurtisaani, rakastajatar, nainen, aikuinen nainen, Braun, Eva Braun, Delilah.

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self-made man, best man, hieman, ilman, stuntman...

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Englannin sanakirja

kept woman englanniksi

  1. A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).

  2. 1912, w:David Graham Phillips|David Graham Phillips, The Price She Paid, ch. 6:

  3. 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 belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.
  4. 1919, w:Jerome K. Jerome|Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary, ch. 5:

  5. "I'm a kept woman," she explained. "What else is any woman?"
  6. 1932 Aug. 8, "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,744134,00.html Cinema: The New Pictures," Time:

  7. Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.

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