marriage lines

English

Noun

marriage lines

  1. plural of marriage line
  2. (plural only, chiefly Britain) A marriage certificate.
    • 1939, John Bakeless, Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness, →ISBN, page 7:
      Then, after the usual Quaker custom, everyone present signed the marriage lines as a witness.
    • 2012, Marsali Taylor, The Story of Busta House, →ISBN, page 19:
      The traditional version of the story continues that Baabie Pitcairn ran to the body, stooped over it and took a paper from the inside pocket – her marriage lines.
    • 2013, Jane Aiken Hodge, Wide is the Water, →ISBN:
      But the loss of their marriage lines did not make writing to Mercy any easier, and he decided to write the letter to his mother first.
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