Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
marriage .
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The word itself seems to be a variation of the French word mariage for which music was provided ... mostly waltzes, polkas, and the instruments were the harp, violin, and guitar.
The Music of Mexico 2006
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The word itself seems to be a variation of the French word mariage for which music was provided ... mostly waltzes, polkas, and the instruments were the harp, violin, and guitar.
The Music of Mexico 2006
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“It would have been what the French call a mariage blanc unconsummated,” she recalled later.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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“It would have been what the French call a mariage blanc unconsummated,” she recalled later.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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Drop the stupid word mariage Church and State should be separate and have happy ‘Partnering’ ‘Domestic Partners’ ‘Significant Others’ or whatever.
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Supposedly the French enjoyed this native form of music and had it performed often at weddings - thus the word was rumored to be a mispronunciation of the French word "mariage."
A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997
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Supposedly the French enjoyed this native form of music and had it performed often at weddings - thus the word was rumored to be a mispronunciation of the French word "mariage."
A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997
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The women of Scithia, abhorryng the godly conuersa - cion of mariage, with their housbandes, lefte theim, who in tyme ware so mightie, that thei repelled theim by force: thei called mariage not Matrimonie, but bondage.
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Mariage is not the cause: Nature in her firste molde hath so framed all, wherefore doe you ascribe that to mariage, that is founde faultée in Nature.
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Page 145: 'mariage' [sic]: King Leopold may have used the French spelling 'mariage' for the English 'marriage'.
The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence Between the Years 1837 and 1861 Queen of Great Britain Victoria 1860
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