Sentence examples for proper mistress from inspiring English sources
The musical Gigi (1958) was based on a novella by Colette about a French teenager (Caron) raised by courtesans and trained in the art of being a proper mistress to a gentleman.
But Mary could get a job with a Manhattan family, so why had she agreed to go up there to Dobbs Ferry to a woman who was not a proper mistress but half-servant herself, the way she leaned in to the pot to be scrubbed, the way she cast her eye around the kitchen for grease.
The head-mistress wrote to the proper parties requesting installation promptly.
Living like a pasha in the Ritz-Carlton, Nucky has an entourage that includes a proper German valet and a highly improper mistress (Paz de la Huerta), a former showgirl who swears like a sailor but talks in a gooey baby voice.
By the end of John Edwards's trial, we'd all heard more than we ever wanted to about the sad characters in this sordid melodrama: the politician himself, whose ego trumps Trump's; his onetime aide, who mistook "Single White Female" for an instruction manual; the New Age mistress, who complained when a love nest lacked the proper feng shui.
MISTRESS: So when is the right time?
A mistress of multitasking.
Melissa Errico plays his mistress.
