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handfasting
婚約
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
hand·fast
,
v. t.
[
imp. &
p
. p.
handfasted
;
p.
pr
. &
vb
. n.
handfasting
.]
1.
To
pledge
;
to
bind
. [
Obs
.]
2.
To
betroth
by
joining
hands
,
in
order
to
permit
cohabitation
,
before
the
formal
celebration
of
marriage
;
in
some
parts
of
Scotland
it
was
in
effect
to
marry
provisionally
,
permitting
cohabitation
for
a
year
,
after
which
the
marriage
could
be
formalized
or
dissolved
. [
Obs
.]
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