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English
Noun
Dunmow (uncountable)
- Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
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William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
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The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.
Proper noun
Dunmow
- Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.
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