Meaning of second family | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Second Family.
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2. The family of the Vice President of the United States.
3. a married man’s mistress and her children.

Examples

“We have precedent for two opposite social attitudes toward second families, as they were called before legal second families through sequential marriage became so fashionable.”

“The children in these families often only grasped to full extent of a paterfamilias’s perfidy at his funeral, when they would discover, standing at the graveside, a previously known unknown second family, complete with second widow, grieving children and claims to the estate.”

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