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Boston marriage
noun
an arrangement in which two women live together in an outwardly platonic relationship US- So-called “Boston marriages,” intense but ostensibly non-sexual relationships between two women, were well recognised, and in fact, self-consciously survive. — Jeffrey Weeks, Same Sex Intimacies, p. 54, 2001
- To fulfill this longing, many of us have created a version of the “Boston marriage,” making romantic friendships where we daily experience true love. — Bell Hooks, Communion, p. 212, 2002
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