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marriage lines en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (form-of, plural) plural of marriage line
  2. (UK, plural, plural-only) A marriage certificate.
    • The traditional version of the story continues that Baabie Pitcairn ran to the body, stooped over it and took a paper from the inside pocket – her marriage lines. 2012, Marsali Taylor, The Story of Busta House, →ISBN, page 19:
    • But the loss of their marriage lines did not make writing to Mercy any easier, and he decided to write the letter to his mother first. 2013, Jane Aiken Hodge, Wide is the Water, →ISBN:
    • Then, after the usual Quaker custom, everyone present signed the marriage lines as a witness. 1939, John Bakeless, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, →ISBN, page 7: