open marriage
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of open marriage
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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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
But Ogden Mendez, 33, who works for an alarm security company in Dallas, has redrawn the boundaries of his open marriage to his husband.
From New York Times • Mar. 6, 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 Lord, John
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