marriageable

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Marriageable women had long since ceased to consider him; mothers with maturing daughters dismissed him with a significant shake of the head.

From The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

Age, Marriageable, of women, 37; proper for a husband, 48.

From How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage by Hardy, Edward John

Besides her signed articles, mostly interviews with prominent foreigners,—she was fluent in half a dozen modern languages,—she composed "The Meditations of a Marriageable Maid."

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

And when grown up to Marriageable years I wanted not for store of Sweethearts, and some of them of very good Estates: and yet my Father thought none good enough.

From The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women by Anonymous

Marriageable heiresses, de notre bord, are not to be had for nothing; it must be name for name, and fortune for fortune.

From The American by James, Henry