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lavender marriages

lavender marriages is the plural of lavender marriage.

Meaning of lavender marriage

Noun

lavender marriage (plural lavender marriages)

  1. A heterosexual marriage of convenience entered into in the hope of concealing the homosexual sexual orientation of one or both of the spouses.
    • [Henry] Willson thwarted tabloid attempts to out [Rock] Hudson as gay and Hudson later married Willson’s secretary, Phyllis Gates, in what was possibly a “lavender marriage” meant to further allay suspicion.2020 May 1, Alexis Soloski, “‘Hollywood’ Offers Alternate History, and Glimpses of a Real One”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Questions about lavender marriages

What is lavender marriages the plural of?
Lavender marriages is the plural of lavender marriage.

Words near lavender marriages in the dictionary

  1. lavender foal syndrome
  2. lavender lad
  3. lavender lads
  4. lavender linguistics
  5. lavender marriage
  6. lavender marriages
  7. lavender menace
  8. lavender scare
  9. lavender scares
  10. lavender thrift
  11. lavender water

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lavender marriages (page history and authors); lavender 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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