"kept man" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "kept + man",
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      "form": "kept men",
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          "ref": "1917, David Graham Phillips, chapter 17, in Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise",
          "text": "The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1984 November 19, Richard Zoglin, “Video: Small World”, in Time",
          "text": "A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business.",
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        "A man who lives off his lover."
      ],
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        [
          "man",
          "man"
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        [
          "lives off",
          "live off"
        ],
        [
          "lover",
          "lover"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kept boy"
        },
        {
          "word": "ponce"
        }
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  "word": "kept man"
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  "etymology_text": "kept + man",
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      ],
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          "lover",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kept boy"
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    {
      "word": "ponce"
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  ],
  "word": "kept man"
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