concubine
noun
- Law a woman who cohabits with a man although not legally married to him
- in certain polygamous societies, a secondary wife, of inferior social and legal status
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(kŏngˈkyə-bīnˌ, kŏnˈ-)
noun- Law A woman who cohabits with a man without being legally married to him.
- In certain societies, such as imperial China, a woman contracted to a man as a secondary wife, often having few legal rights and low social status.
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