future mate

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This dim Belgian animated movie centres on Sammy, a sea turtle, his best friend, Ray, and his future mate, Shelly.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2011

That’s why Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week is taking the author’s prerogative to ask: "Could your pet decide your future mate?"

From National Geographic

He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female.

From Time Magazine Archive

On looking back over her left shoulder the girl would see the figure of her future mate behind her in the darkness.

From Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul by Frazer, James George, Sir

And while the others played, Mac lay staring at the window curtain as contentedly as if, through it, he beheld "a dream of fair women" from which to choose his future mate.

From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May