| 词汇 | co-wives |
| 释义 | co-wives plural ofco-wife Examples of co-wivesco-wives Only men and women with whom the woman was familiar had access to this space : her husband, family members, agemates of her husband, co-wives and other women friends. Colonial intervention institutionalized instability in marriage by legitimizing a multitude of mediational domains for the domestic disputes that characterize relations between husbands and wives, and between co-wives and female in-laws. Third, by the device of an incomplete wedding it makes the two co-wives more unequal in status and power than a first and second wife inevitably would be. In one popular story, envious of being outdone by each other, the co-wives begin to quarrel. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Families were usually polygamous, with the first wife accorded a special status among her co-wives. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Although co-wives hold equal status, relations between them are expected to be adversarial. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Women spent thirty hours a week fetching wood, and only when co-wives were sisters, or an aunt or niece, were they expected to work together regularly. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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