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second family en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of Second Family.
   alt of Second Family
2. a married man’s mistress and her children.
   • We have precedent for two opposite social attitudes toward second families, as they were called before legal second families through sequential marriage became so fashionable. 1984, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children:
   • The children in these families often only grasped to full extent of a paterfamilias’s perfidy at his funeral, when they would discover, standing at the graveside, a previously known unknown second family, complete with second widow, grieving children and claims to the estate. 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:

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