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When, as Gunther leads her toward the Hall, Siegfried and Gutrune meet them, coming forth from it with strains of marriage-music and a festal train of ladies, her eyes never moving from the ground, she does not see them.
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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Marriage-music (noun) - (1) Children's cries.
--B.E.'s Dictionary of the Termes . . . of the Canting Crew, 1699
(2) Go after, to court; to go sweethearting. "Does John go after Mary?"
--G.F. Northall's Warwickshire Word-Book, 1896
January 14, 2018