"marriageable" is a correct, usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is of marriageable age, meaning they are considered to be an appropriate age to get married. For example: "The prince was now of marriageable age, so his family began looking for suitable brides to marry him."
Marriage, that is, can help make men marriageable.
Mixed marriages as a share of the total population of marriageable age are also lower in Britain (4.2%) than in France (5.6%).
She is one of several marriage consultants who help match ambitious young men and the marriageable daughters of business families.If the meetings go well, the men agree to drop their own surname and are adopted by their new bride's family, becoming both the head of the clan and of its business.
In the same way, marriage numbers are a result of how many people reach marriageable age (the joiners); how many get married (the leavers) and how long people are willing to wait.
This becomes a real problem when she reaches marriageable age.
Touring her district, she finds people anxiously asking her if she knows of any marriageable girls.
Once she became of marriageable age, her father sought to secure her a sound financial match.
Now, the generation with distorted sex ratios at birth is reaching marriageable age.
With or without campus jargon, the annoyingly unfair fact is that marriageable men tend to like women who are young, fertile and intellectually unthreatening.
That might suggest that at the intimate level of family formation, "ever closer union" is becoming more of reality in Europe - though in most countries, the share of the total population of marriageable age actually married to a foreigner is low, below 5%.Second, there is substantial variety in the level.
In the first novella, "Love", Claire, the eldest of three upper-class sisters, is a fiercely independent and intelligent woman whose dark skin makes her less marriageable than her younger siblings with their "gold under the skin".
