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love-child
n. (alternative spelling of love child English)
Usage examples of "love-child".
Besides, she was not a well-bred young lady, she was a love-child, which was a much pleas anter term than bastard.
They talked on until well after the evening gun, supping together and going back over that voyage to Portugal in the Surprise during which Stephen would dimly have perceived the Berlings had he been on deck, and in which, after their going ashore at Lisbon, they heard of Sam's being ordained - Sam Panda, Jack's black love-child, begotten at the Cape - and they were still discussing his chances of a prelacy when the tender came alongside.
His wife is now terrified that their daughter will return home with a pierced nose and an Orcish love-child.