側そば女にょう房ぼう

noun

mistress; concubine

Archaic term for a woman in a secondary relationship to a man, often in a historical or feudal context. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの文ぶん献けんには「側そば女にょう房ぼう」という言こと葉ばが見みられる。

  The term 側女房 can be found in documents from the Edo period.