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单词 smithfield match
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Smithfield match
Smithfield match n. Obsolete a marriage or marriage agreement made for convenience, esp. one made for money; = Smithfield bargain n. (b); cf. match n.1 8a.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > a marriage > [noun] > viewed as more or less advantageous > for money
market-match1605
Smithfield bargain1664
Smithfield match1703
1703 Levellers in Harleian Misc. (1800) XII. 196 Methinks, a Smithfield match is so very ridiculours [sic], that it might nauseate a half-witted courtier.
1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. vi. 205 He resolved never to marry his Daughter on a Smithfield Match; that whoever had Love for her to take her, would, when he died, find her Share of his Fortune in his Coffers. View more context for this quotation
1770 Lady's Mag. 1 79 (heading) Ill consequences attending Smithfield matches.
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