second family

English

Noun

second family (plural second families)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Second Family.
  2. a married man’s mistress and her children.
    • 1984, Judith Martin, Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect 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.
    • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
      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.
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