ANTIPHRASIS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Antiphrasis

... most important personages of the state were suitably provided with mistresses to such an extent that at length it became necessary to transfer occasionally to foreign courts those attractive creatures who, by antiphrasis doubtless, were always called "maids of honour." It was in the household of his sister-in-law, Henrietta of England, that Louis had first met the two mistresses of his predilection; and when he wished to assure himself by a new tie of his royal vassal on the other side of the channel, it was still ...

— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies