The word "concubine" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used in historical or literary contexts to refer to a woman who is in a relationship with a man but is not his wife, often with lesser status. Example: "In ancient times, the king had several concubines who lived in the palace alongside his queen." Alternatives include "mistress" or "secondary wife."
In a further dig, he suggested she shed her name by marrying her "concubine" – her partner Louis Aliot, a senior figure in the party.
In western eyes the "junior wife" was a concubine, but in Chinese law she had the rights of any spouse.
The dynasty tottered on (till 1912 indeed, run for most of that time by the formidable Cixi, the "dowager empress", a concubine of Xianfeng who had installed her six-year-old son, and later an even younger nephew, on the throne).
Then, rich, unchaste husbands, on the other hand, enjoyed the benefits of an official concubine system.Last year the Korea Communications Standards Commission requested that government censors block a Canadian online dating service promoting extramarital encounters ("Life is short. Have an affair") to "protect healthy sexual morals, marriage bonds and family life".
That, he recently joked, has made it difficult for outsiders to work out which entity is the first wife and which is a concubine.
Most of them are still waiting.The accounting firms, which were among the more aggressive globalisers, thought they could be drummer, messenger and concubine all at once.
Muslim martyr He won't give up ReprintsA former intelligence chief, governor of the holy city of Medina and pilot who trained at a Royal Air Force college in Britain, Muqrin is considered a steady hand, though palace gossips sniff that his mother was a Yemeni concubine.
He laboured energetically to fill it: in the last 13 years of his life he fathered six more children with a concubine, adding to the nine he already had.
In 1802, a journalist wrote in the Richmond Recorder that Jefferson "kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves," and that "by this wench Sally our president has had several children".
It opens with the story of a Japanese midwife, Orito Aibagawa, who in 1799 thwarts a senior adviser to the emperor to save the life of a newborn princeling and his concubine mother.
He ended his life tormented by the spells and potions of a rejected former concubine who turned to witchcraft.Werner Herzog made a mountain out of this in his "Death for Five Voices", purportedly a documentary, in 1995.
