"kept woman" meaning in English

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      "form": "kept women",
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          "ref": "1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid",
          "text": "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. . . .\"\n\"I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him,\" said she.",
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          "ref": "1919, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter 5, in All Roads Lead to Calvary",
          "text": "\"I'm a kept woman,\" she explained. \"What else is any woman?\"",
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        {
          "ref": "1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A woman who is supported financially by a lover (usually a married man)."
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          "financially",
          "financially"
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          "lover",
          "lover"
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        {
          "word": "sugar baby"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "femme entretenue"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "amasia"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "manata"
        },
        {
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "barregá"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "word": "kitartott nő"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "mantenuta"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "utrzymanka"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "soderžánka",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "содержа́нка"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "mantenida"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "kept woman"
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  "etymology_text": "kept + woman",
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          "ref": "1912, David Graham Phillips, chapter 6, in The Price She Paid",
          "text": "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. . . .\"\n\"I could not belong to a man unless I cared for him,\" said she.",
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          "text": "\"I'm a kept woman,\" she explained. \"What else is any woman?\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1932 August 8, “Cinema: The New Pictures”, in Time",
          "text": "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.",
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          "lover"
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          "word": "sugar baby"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
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        "feminine"
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      "word": "femme entretenue"
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      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "amasia"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "manata"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "barregá"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "word": "kitartott nő"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mantenuta"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "utrzymanka"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "soderžánka",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "содержа́нка"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "woman supported financially by a lover",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mantenida"
    }
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  "word": "kept woman"
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