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English
Etymology
kept + woman
Noun
kept woman (plural kept women)
- A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man).
- Synonym: sugar baby
- Coordinate term: kept man
1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid:He said: "Why bother about a career? After all, kept woman is a thoroughly respectable occupation—or can be made so by any preacher or justice of the peace. . . ."
"I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him," said she.
1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time:Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne . . . falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife.
Translations
woman supported financially by a lover