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单词 marriage lines
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marriage lines
f. plural. Short for marriage lines, the certificate of marriage. Applied also dialect to other kinds of certificates (e.g. of church membership).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > official announcements, permission, or records > [noun] > certificate
marriage certificate1821
line1829
1829 J. Hunter Hallamshire Gloss. Lines. Marriage-lines is a certificate of marriage often asked for and kept by the bride.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xi. 68 She could not produce her ‘marriage lines’.
1861–2 W. M. Thackeray Philip (1869) I. xii. 254 ‘How should a child like you know that the marriage was irregular?’ ‘Because I had no lines’, cries Caroline quickly.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 81Lines of admission’, or as we should call them letters of recommendation.
1901 Union Mag. Mar. 106/1 The old minister fell into a reverie in the very midst of filling in Sandy M'Turk's lines.
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marriage lines
marriage lines n. colloquial a marriage certificate, esp. one held by a bride.
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1818 Times 25 Mar. 3/3 Pearson came back, and asked 7s. 6d. from each couple to get the marriage-lines.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xi. 68 She could not produce her ‘marriage lines’.
1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xxi. 300 She was respectably married and had her marriage lines same as other women in the Row.
2006 S. Donati Queen of Swords xvi. 123 She did have a set of marriage lines, these absolutely legal and binding in the eyes of both the Catholic church and the law.
extracted from marriagen.
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