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vinculum matrimonii
[ wing-koo-loom mah-tri-moh-ni-ee; English ving-kyuh-luhm ma-tri-moh-nee-ahy ]
noun
, Latin.
- the bond of matrimony.
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This quotation, it must be added, has nothing to do with what the Canonists, borrowing the technical term for a prisoner's shackles, suggestively termed the vinculum matrimonii; it was written many years ago concerning the galleys of the old French convict system.
From Project Gutenberg
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