英语词汇“wife of the left hand”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

† wife of the left hand n. Obsolete a wife in a morganatic marriage. Cf. left-handed adj. 2f.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank > with social inferior > female partner

wife of the left hand1690

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon v. 55 In the mean time, be all my Witnesses, that I take Phædra for my Wife of the left hand; that is, in the nature of a lawfull Concubine.

1788 C. Reeve Exiles II. 196 She is only my wife of the left hand.

1867 C. Coleman tr. L. Mühlbach Goethe & Schiller iv. viii. 448 The beautiful Julie von Voss..had never forgiven herself for..consenting to become the king's wife of the left hand [Ger. Gemahlin linker Hand].

单词	wife of the left hand
释义	> as lemmas wife of the left hand † wife of the left hand n. Obsolete a wife in a morganatic marriage. Cf. left-handed adj. 2f. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > of persons of unequal rank > with social inferior > female partner wife of the left hand1690 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon v. 55 In the mean time, be all my Witnesses, that I take Phædra for my Wife of the left hand; that is, in the nature of a lawfull Concubine. 1788 C. Reeve Exiles II. 196 She is only my wife of the left hand. 1867 C. Coleman tr. L. Mühlbach Goethe & Schiller iv. viii. 448 The beautiful Julie von Voss..had never forgiven herself for..consenting to become the king's wife of the left hand [Ger. Gemahlin linker Hand]. extracted from left handn.adj. < as lemmas
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