Title or Form of Address
- Mistress (form of address), an old-fashioned term for the lady of the house, especially one who is head of the household
- Mrs, original abbreviation
- Mistress (college), a female head of a college
- List of Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge
- Mistress of the Robes, the senior lady of the British Royal Household
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