单词 | left-handed marriage |
释义 | > as lemmasleft-handed marriage Sometimes referring to the custom formerly practised in Germany in which the bridegroom literally offered the bride his left hand when contracting a morganatic marriage. The term left-handed marriage is sometimes also used in a more general sense for the matrimonium inæquale of German law, in which, though the spouse still had no rights, the children did retain the rights of succession.extracted from left-handedadj.< as lemmas |
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