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love match

noun

  1. a marriage entered into for love alone.


love match

noun

  1. a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of love match1

First recorded in 1740–50
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Initially awkward together, they gradually form an attachment informed by the trauma of the job, and their arranged union becomes a love match — albeit an unusually complicated one.

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Kounalakis said she once set Harris up on a date, but “it was not a love match.”

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Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn't concern most of us in the long run.

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A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.

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He’s also staging it at his Washington company, with an entirely different setting: a D.C. television newsroom, in which the passive-aggressive love match of Beatrice and Benedick is co-anchoring a telecast.

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