mistresshood

"But who is else -- saving his gracious mastership and our Lady her mistresshood -- in good sooth I wis not."

The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864

I, therefore, had thought that I'd gone beyond the time when any wealthy man would extend the brass ring of mistresshood.

pretty dumb things 2009

The thing that strikes me as most genuinely subversive in the pre-Code era is the universally recognized commodification of premarital sex; namely, the expensive diamond bracelet as the symbol of mistresshood, much more lucrative in the short run than marriage and the saddling down with debts and childbirth.

Bright Lights After Dark 2009