"Polygamy" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
In criminal law. The offense of having several wives or husbands at the same time, or more than one wife or hus-band at the same time. 3 Inst. 88. And see Reynolds v. U. S., 98 U. S. 145. 25 L. Ed. 244
The condition or state of a plant which bears both
perfect and unisexual flowers.
The state or habit of having more than one mate.
The having of a plurality of wives or husbands at the
same time; usually, the marriage of a man to more than one woman, or
the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to
monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note
under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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