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krikket -> RE: Master/Mistress (10/4/2008 10:55:28 PM)
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Back "in the day", some women called their husbands Mr. i still remember, as a little girl, hearing my great grand-mother and grandmother refer to their husbands as Mr. Taylor (father and son). The funny thing is, i don't remember what my great/grandfathers called their wives.
huggles,
krikket
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
My college aged one was discussing some book she read re an essay she had to write on it. The main character is some guy's mistress, meaning kept woman. So she refers to him as the master and I give her this weird look.
"Okay then, what do you call him if he's not her master?" Lover, paramour, protector, keeper - all Victorian aged terms since the book is from then.
But all I'm thinking is that this is not the definition that usually comes to mind when I hear the term master.
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