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co-respondent Law.|kəʊrɪˈspɒndənt|
a. In a divorce suit, a man charged with the adultery and proceeded against together with the respondent or wife.
1857Act 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85. §xxviii, The Petitioner shall make the alleged Adulterer a Co-Respondent to the said Petition. 1889Daily News 9 Dec. 5/3 The witness in a divorce case..being asked, ‘Are you the co-respondent?’ replied, ‘I am the alleged co-respondent.’ ‘Never mind the ‘alleged’ ’, said the Judge, and very properly.
b. co-respondent('s) shoes, a jocular name for men's two-toned shoes. Also ellipt.
1934A. G. Macdonell How like an Angel ii. ix. 155 A pair of those singularly repulsive shoes of black and white which are called ‘Co-respondents’ (quite wrongly called, incidentally, for co-respondents at least get and give some fun, and these shoes do neither). 1939‘A. Bridge’ Four-Part Setting xxvi. 359 Very richly dressed, with brown-and-white ‘co-respondent’ shoes. 1958K. Amis I like it Here vi. 69 The furious creaking of his co-respondent's shoes.
Hence co-reˈspondency.
1891Pictorial World 14 Nov. 67/2 The shock of the..case, and the co-respondency of the Duc d'O. |