单词 | plaçage |
释义 | plaçagen.2 1. In 18th- and 19th-cent. Louisiana: the custom among many white men of setting up a black or mixed-race woman in her own household in addition to or in place of a wife. Also: such a relationship or situation. historical. ΚΠ 1932 E. F. Frazier Free Negro Family 31 Among the free people of color in Louisiana there existed along side of the moral and juridic family a recognized system of concubinage or plaçage involving white men and mulatto or quadroon women. 1954 Phylon 15 92 The family situation that provides that domestic theme is not atypical; it is placage transplanted to Florida. 1969 Amer. Hist. Rev. 74 935 White men flocked to the balls for easy sex, for an introduction that might lead to a placage, or simply for the pleasure of an evening's dancing. 1977 Amer. Ethnol. 4 597 Miscegenation was so common in Louisiana that interracial marriages were outlawed. In place of legal and religious marriage came placage. 2001 Daily Variety 9 Nov. 16/4 The young women who entered placage did so as a way to escape poverty and hard labor. 2. In Haiti: a relationship similar to marriage but without religious sanction and conferring fewer legal rights upon the female partner, often polygynous and short-lived. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > other types Westminster wedding1660 customary marriage1871 hierogamy1882 companionate1924 companionate marriage1925 customary union1927 plaçage1937 gay marriage1957 open marriage1972 covenant marriage1990 1937 M.J. Herskovits Life in Haitian Valley vi. 105 The second mode of establishing a family is by means of the institution known as plaçage, wherein a man and a woman who desire to live together fulfill certain obligations and perform certain ceremonies at the home of the girl's parents, after which the new household is established. 1975 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 37 1023 With independence came land ownership and inheritance... In this context arose the plaçage or consensual union. 1997 G. Berggren et al. in P. Aaby et al. Prospective Community Stud. in Developing Countries vii. 177 One woman proudly pointed to the four stepchildren she had raised, each from a different plaçage union of her consort. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.21932 |
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