Males are regarded as superior to women in most activities; the elders are respected as repositories of both secular and spiritual wisdom; and people, such as cousins who may be of the same genealogical distance, are frequently divided into "marriageable" and "nonmarriageable" groups, with consequent differences in their interpersonal behaviour.
In ancient Greece and Rome, marriageable girls consecrated their discarded dolls to goddesses.
To the extent that there's commentary, it's all Molière's, as the much-abused intimates of Monsieur Argan — and in particular, his marriageable daughter — cope with his all-consuming hypochondria.
In Syria, girls of marriageable age hang dolls in their windows.
Tevye and Golde have five daughters, three of them in their teens and thus of marriageable age in the pre-revolutionary Russia of 1905, when the musical is set.
In town, the Franciscan Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, whose construction followed Erongarícuaro's modern founding in the 16th century, has a hand-carved wooden ceiling, beautiful interior gardens and a popular statue of San Antonio de Padua visited by "marriageable women in desolation," in the words of a local guide to the region.
The former believes that in the marriage, market men and women reaching their marriageable age are potential marriage transaction partners; when the two sides can predict that they will both benefit from marriage, they will make the decision to marry (Becker 1981).
Rose bursts into tears, with Cassandra speculating it's because she has lost faith in ever meeting any marriageable men, "even hideous, poverty-stricken ones".
We expect that the higher the relative number of second-generation Turks of marriageable age in a city is, the more likely it is for Turkish second generation young adults to have a second-generation partner rather than a first-generation or native partner (H4).
