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To: sinkspur

I'm not sure I'd rate her as high as a Mistress. More like a concubine. Actually, I did think Mistress but my husband said concubine is closer to the mark...


779 posted on 03/18/2005 8:15:25 PM PST by freecopper01
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To: freecopper01
I'm not sure I'd rate her as high as a Mistress. More like a concubine. Actually, I did think Mistress but my husband said concubine is closer to the mark...

Well, she's a little of both, but somehow the language has never evolved a word for woman [other than the wife] with whom a married man openly cohabits, probably because the notion that a man could openly cohabit with another woman and remain married would have been unthinkable.

857 posted on 03/18/2005 8:47:23 PM PST by supercat ("Though her life has been sold for corrupt men's gold, she refuses to give up the ghost.")
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