game-mistress

See also: game mistress and gamemistress

English

Noun

game-mistress (plural game-mistresses)

  1. Alternative form of game mistress.
    • 1676, George Etherege, The Man of Mode, or, Sr Fopling Flutter. […], London: […] J[ohn] Macock, for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, act II, scene ii, page 30:
      A guilty Conſcience may do much, / Go on, be the Game-Miſtreſs o’ the Town, and / Enter all our young Fops, as faſt as they come / From travail.
    • 1994 April, Maureen F. McHugh, “Nekropolis”, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, volume 18, numbers 4 and 5 (214 and 215 overall), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Doubleday Dell Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 140:
      The characters are generated from lists of traits, they’re projections controlled by whoever is game-mistress of the bismek and fleshed out by the household AI.
    • 2002 December, Claudia Varrin, “Chi Chi Valenti”, in A Guide to New York’s Fetish Underground, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 204:
      Empress Chi Chi Valenti, the game-mistress behind the wonderful but unfortunately defunct club Mother, is still the queen of the scene and does a great job of informing you not only of her events, but of nighttime happenings citywide.
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