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left-handed wife
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1. A morganatic wife. Defined by Captain Francis Grose in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, aoccoring to which, when a man married his concubine, or a woman greatly his inferior, he gave her his left hand.' See wife for synonyms.2. A mistress. See mistress for synonyms.
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Left Coast, the
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LEES
leet
leetspeak
leeuwendalers
LEF
LEFA
LEFF
LEFIS
LEFS
left
Left Coast, the
left hip pocket
left-hand side
left-handed
left-handed honeymoon
left-handed wife
leftoverleg
leg beard
leg business
leg man
leg over
leg over situations
leg restraint
leg sliding
leg spreader
leg stretcher
leg work
leg-biter
leg-crushers
leg-lifter
legacy media