side-wife

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A woman who (among others) has the potential to become one's wife, or who is fulfilling the role of one's wife in addition to one's actual wife; a concubine
    — If, however, his wife gave him a handmaiden and he had children by her, he was then barred from taking a side-wife (as a concubine was called).

词形变化

side-wives plural side wife alternative sidewife alternative

词源

From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).
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