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Matchmaking   Listen
noun
Matchmaking  n.  
1.
The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
2.
The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.





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"Matchmaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... of gaiety, politics, and matchmaking, the Duchess of Gordon continued to read, and to correspond with Beattie upon topics of less perishable interest than the factions of the hour. Beattie sent her his "Essay on Beauty" to read in manuscript; he wrote to her about Petrarch, about Lord Monboddo's works, and Burke's book ...
— Beaux and Belles of England • Mary Robinson
... be ever so much of a gentleman and a privy councillor, but if you have a daughter you cannot be secure of immunity from that petty bourgeois atmosphere which is so often brought into your house and into your mood by the attentions of suitors, by matchmaking and marriage. I can never reconcile myself, for instance, to the expression of triumph on my wife's face every time Gnekker is in our company, nor can I reconcile myself to the bottles of Lafitte, port and sherry which are only brought out on his account, ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... be the last to hear any such rumours. But it isn't fair to the girl; she has not had a chance. Do you know what people will say of us, Tom? That we took her away down here and shut her up among ourselves for the very purpose of matchmaking. It is a blessing our Leonard is only a boy, but it is bad enough that ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan


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