concubines
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 ● Mar. 4, 2026
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 ● Sep. 8, 2022
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
In many cases, they openly lived with concubines, had children, and worked to ensure that their children receive lucrative positions in the Church.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
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
