Meaning of Dunmow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married.
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2. Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.

Examples

“The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe.”

“Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.”

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