concubines

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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 • Mar. 4, 2026

However, sumptuary laws dictated what women could and could not wear, elite men kept concubines, and the Tang legal system considered women property.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

But Bracton does have a lot to say about monsters, duels, bastardy, concubines, sturgeon “and other royal fish,” the “pillory and the ducking-stool," and "a judgment with infamy.”

From Washington Post • May 9, 2022

Criminals, slaves and concubines were tattooed, and some ethnic groups tattooed themselves to ward off evil.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2019

And then after a while she said again, “As for our son, there was not even a child among the concubines of the Old Master himself to compare to him in beauty and in dress.”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck