concubine
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Cixi, once a concubine of the Xianfeng emperor, assumed power upon his death in 1861.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Early on in the winsome new documentary about her life and work, Rita Moreno takes gently hilarious aim at Tuptim, the young Burmese concubine she played in the 1956 film of “The King and I.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2021
He must be rejoicing, telling the Emperor Charles that the king’s concubine is living her last hours.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
More than the sentimental figure of the concubine, this final image most memorably expresses the show’s central theme: the too high cost of war.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2019
It too was an unnecessary effort because Meme had no desire to intervene in her father's affairs and if she had, it would certainly have been in favor of the concubine.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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 ● Nov. 17, 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
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