English Explanatory Dictionary

Dunmow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
name
  1. Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.

Word forms

Dunmow
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on D Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary