Duchess
Duchess noun - The wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right.
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Synonyms for Duchess
Mistress
Mistress noun - A female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship.
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Synonyms for Mistress
Duchess and mistress are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Duchess" instead a noun "Mistress".
Nearby Word: mister
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Both words in one sentence
- In The Duchess, The Duke ends up doing this with his mistress Bess Foster after his wife Georgiana dies at the end of the movie.
Source: Remarried to the Mistress - When King Charles II's mistress Nell Gwynn was mistaken for the Duchess of Portsmouth (another of Charles' mistresses), a crowd started calling her a Catholic whore and attacking her carriage.
Source: Wrong Insult Offence -
The Duchess which is about the complex love triangle between the duke, his wife and the duke's mistress Lady Bess Foster.
Source: Chick Flick
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