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   From: dewhurst@wave.co.nz   
      
   "banana"  wrote in message   
   news:5TKmMIAjBIUEFwsD@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   > In article , Roger Dewhurst   
   >  writes   
   >   
   > >got a fake wife - of the kind   
   > >> known in certain circles as a 'beard'.   
   > >   
   > >It seems that I am out of touch with the idiom.  What is a 'beard' in   
   this   
   > >context?   
   >   
   > It's a 'female companion of convenience', employed by a gay man to give   
   > the false impression that he is straight. They can range from women   
   > hired to appear in photographs accompanying the man to nightclubs, all   
   > the way to legal wives such as Ffion Jenkins.   
   >   
   Thank you, and Trevjon.  What is the word for the consort when it is the   
   other way about?  I am thinking of one or two of our significant   
   politicians!   
      
   Roger   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)