marriageable

• Squatting with his father in desert heat, yellow dust all around them, burying seeds they had stored away, saved when they might have been eaten, kept when they might have made Gita fat and marriageable, his father smiling, saying, "These seeds will make hundreds of new seeds and then we will all eat well How many seeds will they make?" —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• He might not yet see things as she did, but she was perfectly marriageable, after all. —  A Gentleman's Honor
• Squatting with his father in desert heat, yellow dust all around them, burying seeds they had stored away, saved when they might have been eaten, kept when they might have made Gita fat and marriageable, his father smiling, saying, “These seeds will make hundreds of new seeds and then we will all eat well How many seeds will they make?” Lalji had asked. —  FSF,October2005
• And I promise not to pawn Coie off on you if you have a marriageable-aged son. —  HS Blog - Homeschool Blog
• Religious customs play a part, but all over Africa, girls are routinely mutilated so they will be "marriageable", and wherever dowries are legal, they are sold into arranged marriages, traded for cows, whatever. —  WordPress.com News

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