| 单词 | boston marriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBoston marriage Boston marriage n. U.S. used euphemistically to refer to the cohabitation of two women, esp. in a romantic relationship or intimate friendship; now chiefly historical. [Perhaps originating in allusion to Henry James's novel The Bostonians (1886), in which such a cohabitation is portrayed.] ΚΠ 1893 Open Court 5 Jan. 3517/2 I do not propose that we should formally adopt the Boston Marriage into our civil code. 1965 H. Howe Gentle Amer. v. 83 Such an alliance I was brought up to hear called a 'Boston marriage'. 1983 J. Epstein Plausible Prejudices (1985) 307 As a young woman she entered into an important friendship with Sarah Orne Jewett, who herself had a ‘Boston marriage’ with Annie Fields. 2003 J. Flanders Victorian House (2004) x. 326 What Boston marriages implied sexually probably varied from couple to couple. < as lemmas |
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