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Definition of Mixed marriage
1. Noun. Marriage of two people from different races or different religions or different cultures. "The families of both partners in a mixed marriage often disapprove"
Definition of Mixed marriage
1. Noun. marriage between people having different race, culture or religion ¹
2. Noun. (context: poker slang) A king and a queen of different suits as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em (see marriage (poker slang)). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mixed Marriage
Literary usage of Mixed marriage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As to a mixed marriage contracted before a non-Catholic minister, ... For the
issuing of a dispensation for a mixed marriage, the Church requires three ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"The contraction of a mixed marriage after the divorce of the Protestant party
would necessarily be considered absolutely unlawful by the Roman Catholic ..."
3. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"A mixed marriage at Port Gibson Mississippi Election of 1875, p. 159. Two accounts,
by whites. [1875] [i] IN 1874 . . a saddle-colored member of the ..."
4. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"... mixed marriage ACT I SCENE. It is the evening of a warm summer day al the
beginning of July. The lising room of JOHN RAINEY'S house, by reason of the ..."
5. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1921)
"Ervine has with one exception laid the scene of his principal plays in and around
Belfast: " mixed marriage," " The Orangeman," and " The Magnanimous Lover ..."