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Fleet marriages

Fleet marriages is the plural of Fleet marriage.

Meaning of Fleet marriage

Noun

Fleet marriage (plural Fleet marriages)

  1. (UK, historical) An irregular or clandestine marriage taking place in Fleet Prison, London, England, before the Marriage Act came into force in 1754.

Questions about Fleet marriages

What is Fleet marriages the plural of?
Fleet marriages is the plural of Fleet marriage.

Words near Fleet marriages in the dictionary

  1. fleet landing
  2. fleet landings
  3. fleet leader
  4. fleet leaders
  5. Fleet marriage
  6. Fleet marriages
  7. Fleet Marston
  8. fleet of foot
  9. Fleet parson
  10. Fleet parsons
  11. fleet race

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fleet marriages (page history and authors); Fleet marriage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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