I had never heard this expression until the other night when someone was talking about a Sydney personality and they said, 'sounds like a lavender marriage'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_marriage
Lavender marriage is a type of male-female marriage of convenience in which the couple are not both heterosexual and conceal the homosexual or bisexual orientation of one or both spouses. In gay slang, the heterosexual spouse in a lavender marriage is referred to as a "beard" for a wife.
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