单词 | mistressing |
释义 | † mistressingn. Obsolete. The action of courting or having an affair with a mistress. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > paying court to a mistress mistressinga1631 a1631 J. Donne To Mr. Tilman in Poems (1654) 350 As if their day were onely to be spent In dressing, Mistressing, and complement. 1633 G. Herbert Church Porch in Temple xiv Flie idlenesse, which yet thou canst not flie By dressing, mistressing, and complement. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 461 No Mistrissing, nor Revelling. 1783 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 525 Drinking, and dressing, and mistressing. 1853 Kimball's Student Life Abroad 19 249/2 The Physiologie de l'Etudiant of Huart, a piquant account of the voluptuous scenes of student-mistressing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.a1631 |
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