concubine

1. (chiefly historical) A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.Examples: "He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch, And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:"; "And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain, answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead. And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel."; "Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorities, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines."Synonyms: odalisquehistorical