plural wives
Several married women
Plural wives are women married simultaneously to the same man in a polygamous arrangement.
The term appears primarily in discussions of Mormon fundamentalism and certain religious traditions that permit polygyny: He had three plural wives living in separate households.
The phrase emphasizes multiplicity—these are wives beyond the first, existing in parallel rather than sequence.
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