0 the practice of having concubines -- 纳妾
Communist revolutionaries banned bigamy and concubinage in China. 在中国,共产革命禁止了重婚和纳妾。
The majority of pregnancies in concubinages did not lead to successful offspring.
The injunction made in the latter not only casts light on the cliché of the ill-married woman (treated in more detail below), but also bears on the legitimacy of concubinage.
The deserted spouse is condemned to a life of celibacy or a life of concubinage.
Are the only two possible human relationships between a man and a woman either marriage or concubinage?
If they were not to live in a state of legal concubinage the law had to be altered so that they might be married.
On the other hand, it was seen as comparable to concubinage.
While many of the changes in gender relations described in the book did take place, this work seems to ignore the widespread practice of friar concubinage.
Does "family" mean a man and a woman in marriage or a man and a woman in concubinage?