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frank-marriages

frank-marriages is the plural of frank-marriage.

Meaning of frank-marriage

Noun

frank-marriage (countable and uncountable, plural frank-marriages)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A form of conditional marriage-gift of land under English law, often from father to daughter.
    • an estate given with her in frank marriage by her ancestor1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Questions about frank-marriages

What is frank-marriages the plural of?
Frank-marriages is the plural of frank-marriage.

Words near frank-marriages in the dictionary

  1. Frank-Caro process
  2. frank-fee
  3. frank-fees
  4. Frank-land
  5. frank-marriage
  6. frank-marriages
  7. frank-pledge
  8. frank-pledges
  9. Frank-Tamm formula
  10. Frank-ter Haar syndrome
  11. frankability

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