maîtresse en titre
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French maîtresse en titre.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmaîtresse en titre (plural maîtresses en titre)
- An open or official mistress. [from 19th c.]
- 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 87:
- General Campion had assigned her to him as maîtresse en titre.
- 1991, Princess Michael of Kent, Cupid and the King, Touchstone, published 2005, page 89:
- In view of the dubious role of a maîtresse en titre, no less a personage than a cousin of the monarch was considered suitable as a sponsor.