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Love child

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child. euphemistic

    "Nobody ever came to see her, nobody spoke of her, nobody cared about her. Mr Brass had said once, that he believed she was a ‘love-child’ (which means anything but a child of love)."

  2. 2
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that includes influences of multiple predecessors.

    "The grunge genre was the love child of punk and metal."

Etymology

From love + child.

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