Help me remember a word please.

[no_hypocrisy]

It's a word that would have described Jacqueline Kennedy and Pamela Harriman.

The word that describes a woman who's been groomed (educated, cultured, polished) to be the perfect consort for a powerful man. Like a geisha or a high end professional woman, but with the goal of enhancing the man she marries.

Not a concubine as much as a power wife or kept woman.

Update: Never mind. Found it. COURTESAN.

[TexasBushwhacker]

1. I was going to say that but a courtesan is the mistress

of a wealthy or powerful man.

[Laffy Kat]

3. Consort?

On edit: Never mind, that really doesn't fit either.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. "Courtesan" is just another word for prostitute.

An elegant prostitute, but still. Or maybe a "kept woman." So I would not place Jacqueline Kennedy in that category.

[NNadir]

5. Not always. Like many words, the word has evolved a pejorative meaning, but...

...it can and sometimes does denote a well educated person groomed for presence at a royal court or other seat of power.

[Marie Marie]

6. How about just "Woman" ...

as in: Behind every great man is a Woman.

[Orrex]

7. If she lives in the water, she's a hydro courtesan

Very effective at treating dry skin, by the way.

[malthaussen]

8. "Princess" is the word you want.

The end product of hundreds of years of selective breeding.

-- Mal

[intrepidity]

9. Debutante? or whatever they turn into?

Like "debutante" or "society woman" maybe?