kept man
Noun
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Noun
kept man
- A man who lives off his lover.
- 1917, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, ch. 17:
- The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.
- 1984 Nov. 19, Richard Zoglin, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,950211,00.html Video: Small World]," Time:
- A strapping Italian hunk, he becomes the rich actress's kept man, uses her money to start himself in business.
- 1917, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, ch. 17:
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