born out of wedlock

[born out of wedlock] {adj. phr.}

Born to parents who are not married to each other; without legal parents.

* /Sometimes when a married couple can't have children, they adopt a child who was born out of wedlock./

* /Today we no longer make fun of children born out of wedlock./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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