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Word: lovechild (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boasting, of flag rank or a staff officer in the so-called "Battle of Valley Forge." He was also, despite land speculations in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania, ever at sea financially. When a native insurrection threatened his Haitian holdings in 1790, he brought young John and another lovechild (by a quadroon) back to his complaisant in-port wife in Nantes. She happily adopted both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prodigal Painter | 12/25/1964 | See Source »

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