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In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged sexual attraction.
(plural concubines) 1  A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife. 2  A slave-girl for sexual service prominent in all ancient cultures. 3  Signifies a relationship where the male is the dominant partner, socially and economically.