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Google Ai overview definition is a long term cohabiting relationship between two women.

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The term ; ‘Boston Marriage’ was first referred in a novel published by Henry James 1886 the Bostonians which described long term cohabiting relationships between two independent woman. The word wasn't used in the novel itself but referred.

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Boston Marriage? More Like Saucin Marriage.

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Boston Marriage? More Like Saucin Marriage.

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I chose Boston Marriage as my Mini Etymology Exhibit because it was a term ive never encountered before. It drew my eye on ’ what could this possibly mean? ’ As i did further research the word is used to identify two women who live independently but are in a discreet relationship with one another.

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Ai Google Historic Form; based on communicational relationships that’s ere discreet, this was a way for women to live independently but be committed outside of traditional heterosexual marriage.

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Etymology Web; no results for ‘Boston Marriage’ appeared but definitions for ‘Boston’ and ‘Marriage’ showed.

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Oxford English Dictionary meaning and use

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Oxford English Dictionary meaning and use

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The term ‘Boston Marriage’ was first published to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2017 and was described as “ euphemistically to refer to the cohabitation of two women, esp. in a romantic relationship or intimate friendship; now chiefly historical.” In the Oxford English Dictionary.

Multiple times over the 1890s to the early 2000s the term was used the same. In 2003 the debates on the term Boston Marriage was implied sexually and varied from couple to couple.

“Boston Marriage, N.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, September 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1158757424.

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To me the term ‘Boston Marriage’ means a relationship between two women who are individually housed but share financial support from a man and are in a discreet relationship. The man will support both the women financially but will not provide sexual or romantic needs.

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On the Oxford English Dictionary fact sheets theyre is only one meaning in the OEDS entry for the term Boston Marriage. But it is used in 1893, 1965,1983, 2003. All of these times it was used in the same definition.

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What Boston marriage told me about LGBTQ+

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What Boston marriage told me about LGBTQ+

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What Boston marriage represents to me comparing 2025 to 1886 when the word was first mentioned. In 1886 theyre weren’t any open same sex relations. They’re were relationships were men and women would be together and the man would support the women financially but not sexually or romantically. While this created a problem for the women because her needs romantically were not being served. Causing women to open up to one another.

But now in 2025 ‘Boston marriages’ no longer exist because same sex relationships are more open and common. In some cases you will see thruples which included two women and one man to their knowledge.