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Definition of Betrothals
1. betrothal [n] - See also: betrothal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Betrothals
Literary usage of Betrothals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1879)
"... of the Commerce Minister—Attempt on the Emperor's Life ‘—betrothals—Anti. ...
betrothals ..."
2. The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the by François Pyrard (1887)
"... it takes three to carry them. And when they have done eating, they go home to
bed. CHAPTER XII. More of their ceremonies,—at betrothals and ..."
3. Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat by William Hulme Hooper (1853)
"Indian betrothals.— Forty skins for one.—Indian Currency.—Esquimaux and Indian
Feuds. ON the Lion Reef, where we slept on the night of the 14th, ..."
4. Studies in Oriental Social Life and Gleams from the East on the Sacred Page by Henry Clay Trumbull (1894)
"betrothals AND WEDDINGS IN THE EAST. In any examination of the facts of Oriental
social life, it is important to ascertain how those facts are viewed by the ..."
5. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"... and the preliminaries of betrothals are usually settled by them in the harem
before they are submitted to the head of the family and communicated to the ..."
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