frank-marriage
English
Etymology
frank (“free”) + marriage
Noun
frank-marriage (plural frank-marriages)
- (obsolete, Britain, law) A kind of estate tail.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for frank-marriage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)