| 单词 | wife-purchase |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswife-purchase wife-purchase n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > bride-purchase bride purchasea1860 wife-purchase1862 lobola1897 1862 W. Russell Undiscovered Crimes 222 The marriage, spite of the plain face, the unlovely form, and the huckstering wife-purchase and sale, was a happy one. 1935 Robstown (Texas) Record 21 Feb. 2/5 Missionarys [sic] discourage but do not prohibit the custom of ‘wife purchase’. 2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 193 The researcher who recorded all this said they were a currency used in wife-purchase. < as lemmas |
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