Definition of "mistresses" []

• Plural form of mistress. (noun)

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• "Understand that I grew up the daughter of a culture-mad German mother who, when we traveled abroad, would wheedle ballet mistresses from the Kirov into giving my siblings and me private instruction (plying them, if need be, with eclairs and cigarettes), dragged us to Giselle 17 times, and forced us to take piano lessons."
• "How was sexuality less cheap hundreds of years ago when wives were the chattle of their husbands, when wives could be legally beaten for any reason, including refusing to "service" their husbands, when it was perfectly normal for husbands to maintain mistresses to fulfill the sexual needs that often were lacking in these arranged marriages, and when women were punished extremely harshly, even fatally, for engaging in the same adulterous behavior?"
• "Residents are overwhelmingly long-term mistresses, or moonlighting wanna-bes on the lookout for a well-heeled man to keep them."