Associations to the word «Concubinage»

Wiktionary

CONCUBINAGE, noun. The state of cohabiting or living together as man and wife while not married.
CONCUBINAGE, noun. The state of being a concubine.

Dictionary definition

CONCUBINAGE, noun. Cohabitation without being legally married.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats