adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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Young women of conspicuously marriageable age never sat there.
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Originally they remained priestesses for only five years: that is, until they reached marriageable age .
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Herodotus described auctions held in ancient Babylon to sell young maidens of marriageable age .
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This correction is usually negligible for the most marriageable age groups.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All too often she merely gives up her remaining marriageable years to them.
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But there were few marriageable girls left.
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How many marriageable girls does a man meet?
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Humble clerks who have gone a bust on clothes for marriageable daughters are outraged but too timid to protest.
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Originally they remained priestesses for only five years: that is, until they reached marriageable age.
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There was as a result a shortage of marriageable young men among the lower Patels.
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Young women of conspicuously marriageable age never sat there.
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Zuwaya men, for instance were extremely careful not to touch the marriageable daughters of their kin, friends and neighbours.