Meaning of game mistress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female game master.

Examples

“His idea tonight was that he might need a full-time game master—or better, he thought, a game mistress, somebody cute and blond with gold-rimmed glasses. But game sales wouldn’t support a game mistress for long. So there’d have to be a time limit on the game. Say, one year. He pulled out a fresh sheet of paper, sat on his high stool, doodled a bit.”

“The Game Master/Mistress may lead the Magic Box Game (see Glossary).”

“And actress Zoë Wanamaker, who played Hogwarts’ game mistress Madam Gooch, said Warner Bros. were ‘notoriously mean’ when it came to payment and that she was so insulted by what she termed ‘crap money’ that she declined a deal for three Potter films.”

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