"side-wife" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1903, Sydney Russell Wrightington, Horace Williams Fuller, Arthur Weightman Spencer, The Green Bag - Volume 15",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "1998, Yūko Nishimura, Gender, Kinship And Property Rights",
          "text": "She was also a 'sidewife'. Nobody talks about it because she is a rich entrepreneur.",
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          "ref": "2012, Robin Furth, Stephen King's The Dark Tower Concordance",
          "text": "A gilly (or sheevin) is a side-wife taken by a man who already has a legal wife.",
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          "ref": "2015, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)",
          "text": "For one who has no husband, as well as for one who acts as a side-wife for a person, who has formed a household, or who lives elsewhere and is not enumerated together [with a husband or children on a population register], […]"
        }
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        "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"
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        {
          "word": "side wife"
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  "word": "side-wife"
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  "etymology_text": "From side + wife. Compare Dutch bijwijf (“concubine”).",
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          "ref": "1903, Sydney Russell Wrightington, Horace Williams Fuller, Arthur Weightman Spencer, The Green Bag - Volume 15",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "She was also a 'sidewife'. Nobody talks about it because she is a rich entrepreneur.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2015, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China (2 vols)",
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  "word": "side-wife"
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