Definitions
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- noun A woman who is simultaneously sister and wife to her husband:
- noun In a
polygamous marriage, a woman who is simultaneously the sister andco-wife of another. - noun A co-wife in general.
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Examples
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To be even more honest I would say that I don't know if I could live with other women as a "sister-wife" sharing everything and one man.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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To be even more honest I would say that I don't know if I could live with other women as a "sister-wife" sharing everything and one man.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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Why a man would want to have more than one spouse and why a woman would be content to be a sister-wife.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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To be even more honest I would say that I don't know if I could live with other women as a "sister-wife" sharing everything and one man.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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Why a man would want to have more than one spouse and why a woman would be content to be a sister-wife.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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Ellsworth has internationally staged improvisational sister-wife performances with a troupe of actresses wearing the 19th-century prairie dresses and hairstyles of frontier women that still inform the modest dresses and hair favored by some of today's sister-wives.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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Manco Capac had by his sister-wife, Mama Ocllo, a son called Sinchi Roca or Cinchi Roca.
Olga Bonfiglio: Travelogue: 100th Anniversary Of Machu Picchu Discovery Olga Bonfiglio 2012
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Manco Capac had by his sister-wife, Mama Ocllo, a son called Sinchi Roca or Cinchi Roca.
Olga Bonfiglio: Travelogue: 100th Anniversary Of Machu Picchu Discovery Olga Bonfiglio 2012
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Ellsworth has internationally staged improvisational sister-wife performances with a troupe of actresses wearing the 19th-century prairie dresses and hairstyles of frontier women that still inform the modest dresses and hair favored by some of today's sister-wives.
G. Roger Denson: XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide G. Roger Denson 2011
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Why a man would want to have more than one spouse and why a woman would be content to be a sister-wife.
Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010
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