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Matchmaking   Listen
noun
Matchmaking  n.  
1.
The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
2.
The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.





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"Matchmaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... matter of fact, the Jews marry mostly amongst themselves in Germany, and men are still living in Frankfurt and other large cities who have made comfortable fortunes by the brokerage they charged on their matchmaking. Formerly a prosperous unmarried Jew used to be besieged by offers from these agents; and so were men who could give their daughters a good dowry. The better-class Jews do not employ them nowadays, but their marriages are suggested and arranged much as marriages are in France. A young merchant ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
... judgment showed more and more clearly that he could not offer any valid excuse for interference in the girl's affairs. For all he knew to the contrary, she might be tremulous with delight at the prospect of becoming a French countess; if that were so, the fact that he disapproved of Mrs. Devar's matchmaking tactics would be received very coldly. Cynthia's natural interpretation of his allusion to her chaperon offered a means of escape from a ...
— Cynthia's Chauffeur • Louis Tracy


Words linked to "Matchmaking" :   intermediation, mediation


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