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kept woman

noun as in concubine

Strongest match

Strong match

noun as in paramour

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And men didn’t want to give money to women, because they didn’t believe they could win, a circular logic that kept women sidelined.

Far from a kept woman, the L.A. hot girl is independently wealthy, yet also not typically from money.

This way of thinking kept women from concerts and music education.

Which is, of course, just another version of “biology is destiny,” an argument that has kept women at a socioeconomic and political disadvantage for centuries.

When the Taliban first came to power in Afghanistan in 1996, it imposed a strict version of Islamic law, or sharia, that kept women out of schools and workplaces and wrapped them in head-to-toe clothing.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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