open marriage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of open marriage
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Ha-Chan can’t bear to tell him her husband is dead, so she tells him that she is also in an open marriage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
It's entirely possible that nothing, not even an open marriage, could have saved Love and Joe's ultimately doomed relationship.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2021
My wife and I have been married for 10 years, but she recently asked me for an open marriage.
From Slate ● May 24, 2021
In doing research for the role, Anderson called on his friend Sarunas Jackson, who plays a character in an open marriage on HBO’s “Insecure.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2020
Abélard would perhaps have consented to an open marriage had Héloïse been willing; but with a strange perversity she refused.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by John Lord
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