Task: Instance Description Understanding (ontology: Sciences/Biology)

Which of the following definitions best describes the instance 'Boston marriage'?

A. An historical term for a cohabitative relationship between two women, typically wealthy, independent of financial support from a man. The term is said to have been in use in New England in the late 19th/early 20th century. Some of these relationships were romantic in nature and might now be considered a lesbian relationship; others were not.
B. A woman of high school or college age who is experimenting with or adopting a temporary lesbian identity.
C. According to Carey Goldberg, "[t]here is no really right, widely accepted pronoun for Riki Anne Wilchens. Nor is there the right honorific." For this reason, Wilchins is listed here as a transgender person and as a genderqueer person.
D. A euphemism used by obituary writers in the United Kingdom in order to note that the deceased was gay.

Answer: An historical term for a cohabitative relationship between two women, typically wealthy, independent of financial support from a man. The term is said to have been in use in New England in the late 19th/early 20th century. Some of these relationships were romantic in nature and might now be considered a lesbian relationship; others were not.