单词 | to marry over the broomstick |
释义 | > as lemmasto marry over the broomstick to marry over the broomstick: to go through a quasi-marriage ceremony, in which the parties jump over a broomstick; also called ‘to jump the besom’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [verb (intransitive)] > jump over broomstick to marry over the broomstick1824 1824 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 95 They were married over a broom-stick. 1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. iv ‘There's some as think she was married over the broom-stick, if she was married at all’. < as lemmas |
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