Meaning of hatches, matches, and dispatches | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

Examples

“Those who study diligently the 'hatches, matches, and dispatches' column of the 'Times' will see that the 25th of January (the- festival of the Conversion of St Paul) was a great day for weddings this year.'”

“He would have some time for reading his Farmer's Weekly and the Scottish Farmer while the daily paper, the Dundee Courier and Advertiser, was a necessary conduit of local and social news; the “hatches, matches, and dispatches” page an indispensable notice of births, marriages, and deaths in the Fife population.”

“In some households it is still given a place of honour on the sideboard or coffee table, not necessarily to be read but to record the family history of hatches, matches and dispatches.”

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