| 释义 |
co-wife|ˈkəʊˌwaɪf|
[f. co- 3 b + wife n.]
A joint wife; one of several wives of the same man.
1892Kipling & Balestier Naulahka xx. 247 If a co-wife had sought the lives of those three of thine. 1956Bull. Sch. Oriental & Afr. Stud. XVIII. 165 A wife says it to a friend or co-wife but at her husband to tell him that she and his other wives are displeased. |