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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Famous quotes containing the words title, form and/or address:
“Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“Take a red book called TELEPHONE,
size eight by four. There it sits.
My red book, name, address and number.
These are all people that I somehow own.
Yet some of these names are counterfeit.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)