concubinage

Borrowed from French concubinage.

concubinage (countable and uncountable, plural concubinages)

1. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.
2. The state of being or keeping a concubine.
   • 1902, Websters International Dictionary., In some countries, concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. Under Roman Law, it was the living together of a man and a woman in sexual relations without marriage but in conformity with local law.:
   • 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization‎, page 220:

     The existence of concubinage among rulers, and members of upper classes, lead us to think that the ideal of womanhood prevailing among the people could not have been very high.

From concubin +‎ -age.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ky.bi.naʒ/

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concubinage m (plural concubinages)

1. concubinage

• “concubinage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.