matrimony:

1. The act or rite of marriage .

2. The state of being married ; marriage .

QUOTES:

(1) Sung by the chorus in 42nd Street (1933): ' Matrimony is baloney . She'll be wanting alimony in a year or so .'

(2) Sir Percy Blakeney (Leslie Howard) to his wife Marguerite (Merle Oberon) about her brother Armand Saint-Juste in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1935): ' What a dreadful prospect. What has poor Armand done to be sentenced to matrimony? '

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