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Cohabitation
Cohabitation is an arrangement in which an unmarried couple share a household as an intimate partnership, now the normal way most couples in many countries begin shared lives.
Concubinage
Concubinage, from Latin concubina, is cohabitation as married persons without full legal marriage. Covers Roman law status, medieval church tolerance, Council of Trent abolition, Islamic and Chinese concubinage, and modern French and Mexican inheritance law.