CONCUBINE
ADJECTIVES
► POLLED-UP living with a concubine or mistress → L19 Brit. sl.
NOUNS – PERSON
► BEDFELLOW a concubine; a husband or wife; a spouse → 1490 obs.
► BED-SISTER a concubine; the mistress of a married man in relation to his lawful wife → 1297 obs.
► BEE-BEE a Hindu concubine → 1892 Anglo-Indian sl. (Bk.)
► BELLY-PIECE a concubine; a mistress; a prostitute; a whore → 1632 obs.
► CONKYWINE a concubine → 1922 African-American
► CUNT-PENSIONER a man living on a woman’s concubinage or harlotry; a kept man → 19C colloq.
► HAFFAND a concubine; a paramour → 1914 Sc.
► HAFFIN a concubine; a leman → 1825 Sc.
► HETAERA ► HETAIRA a concubine; a mistress; a female companion or paramour; a courtesan, a harlot → 1820
► KITTOCK a concubine; a mistress; a woman of loose character; a wanton; an unchaste woman → 1470 Sc.
► LEFT-HANDED WIFE a concubine; the equivalent of a common-law wife → M17
► LIE-BY a concubine; a mistress → 1656 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
► LOON a strumpet, a concubine → 1560 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► LOTEBY a concubine; a paramour; a bedfellow; a companion of love; a lover → 1303 obs.
► NIECE a priest’s concubine or illegitimate daughter → 1848 sl.
► ODALISQUE a female concubine or slave in an Eastern harem, esp. in the seraglio of the Sultan of Turkey → 1681
► QUEAN a concubine; a mistress; a paramour → 1931 Sc. obs.
► SKIBBY an Oriental concubine or mistress; an Oriental prostitute; thus, when addressing a Japanese speaker, any prostitute → 1910 US sl.
► SULTANA a concubine; a mistress → 1702
► SULTANA QUEEN the favourite concubine of a sultan → 1668
► TALLY- WIFE a married man’s concubine or mistress → 1887 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TALLY-WOMAN a married man’s concubine or mistress → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WIFE a concubine; a mistress → 19C sl.
► WIFE IN WATER COLOURS a concubine; a mistress → 1785 sl.
► WOMAN a concubine; a prostitute → 17C
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