trial marriage
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I’m also assuming this is a one-year trial marriage of the new coaching staff and the existing coach-killing quarterback.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 22, 2015
During the first phase, which would, in effect, be a trial marriage, the young couple would be required to agree not to have children.
From Time Magazine Archive
"We are not talking of trial marriage," he explained.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of Berkeley's Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "Something like trial marriage would be vastly superior to our present system, which is marriage, divorce and remarriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
It is the olag, an institution of trial marriage.
From The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks
