plaçage
/plaˈsɑːʒ/ /pləˈsɑːʒ/(also placage, plasaj)
noun
1In 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.
2In Haiti: a relationship similar to marriage but without religious sanction and conferring fewer legal rights upon the female partner, often polygynous and short-lived.
Origin
1930s. From French plaçage placing, allotment from placer + -age (compare placer to make a part of a family by marriage, to provide with a situation or job, (nonstandard) placé married, living together or in concubinage).
- crystalline lens
- crystalline sphere
- crystalline style
- crystallinity
- crystallise
- crystallite
- crystallitic
- crystallizable
- crystallization
- crystallize
- crystallized intelligence
- crystallizer
- crystalloblastic
- crystallo-ceramic
- crystallo-ceramie
- crystallochemical
- crystalloclast
- crystallo-engraving
- crystallogenesis
- crystallogenic
- crystallogeny
- crystallogist
- crystallogram
- crystallographer
- crystallographic