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Whatever gets called universal was described by someone standing in one particular place, and the trick is that the place vanishes from the claim.
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Societies that forbade a second wife rarely forbade a second woman. They withheld the word that would have given her a claim on anything.
Concubine
There is a whole vocabulary for women who stopped performing, and every word in it is built to sound like a description rather than a penalty.
Frumpy