concubine

Example Sentences

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The nizam’s court, with its sumptuous palaces, its concubines, its rituals and recitations of poetry and music, was the chief inheritor of the archaic grandeur of the moguls.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among the 20 concubines was the woman who would became known as Malinche.

From Los Angeles Times

As the choreographer read about this eccentric ruler — a gifted athlete with extravagant appetites and wives, kids, concubines and Rolls-Royces galore, who died in his 40s — a production took shape in his mind.

From Washington Post

Local myth says they represent a man who couldn’t choose between his wife and concubine, so all three of them were petrified.

From New York Times

Drawing together decades of writing, these stories follow concubines who fall in love, paranormal researchers and an older man forced to confront his past.

From New York Times