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English
Etymology
From Latin uxor (“wife”) + local.
Adjective
uxorilocal (not comparable)
- (anthropology) Matrilocal.
1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:In Gogni (Chad) a Sokoro, clad in his traditional tunic, a tunic as long as a raglan coat such as a snobbishly insular Parisian might sport whilst on safari, paid a visit to a son of his who was living in Mokulu as a willing victim of an unusual (and, until now, unknown) marital status constituting a paradoxical - or, as anthropologists say, "uxorilocal" - form of subjugation.
Derived terms
French
Adjective
uxorilocal (feminine uxorilocale, masculine plural uxorilocaux, feminine plural uxorilocales)
- uxorilocal
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