concubine

IPA: kˈɑnkjʌbaɪn

noun

  • A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.
  • A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.
  • (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.
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Examples of "concubine" in Sentences

  • Caliph’s concubine is also drugged by the Lady Aubaydah.
  • A concubine was a kind of institutionalized mistress, acquired and discarded at will.
  • The practice, abolished in 1921, meant that the child of a Crown Prince and a concubine was the legal heir to the throne.
  • She was his lawful wife; but, according to the style of the Hebrews, is called concubine, because of her servile extraction.
  • She was his servant, but not his harlot: and is called his concubine, as wives of an inferior degree are commonly called in the
  • When he explained his fear that I would otherwise be called his concubine and that the scandal would harm the revolution, I agreed.
  • The south-east's property shortage could be solved overnight if London's single blokes were forced to take a live-in concubine (or rent boy, if they're that way inclined).
  • Collar found in girl's possession had Dyran's brand, identified as concubine collar last worn by Serina Daeth, slave who escaped to desert under sentence of death for bearing halfblood.

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