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trial marriage

noun

an arrangement by which a couple live together for a period of time to see if they are compatible for marriage.

First recorded in 1920–25

He had invented trial marriage before sociology was a science.

The trial marriage is a blending of the customs of both of these.

Nevertheless he worked on and the trial marriage is his solution of the problem.

However, it should be said that even a contract marriage is a trial marriage to a great degree.

I have already spoken of the unusual custom of the trial marriage which exists among the natives of the Far North.

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