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- noun humorous, nickname The Office of Births, Marriages and Deaths.
- adjective of church attendance, humorous Very
infrequent ; attending only forbaptism ,marriage , andfuneral .
Etymologies
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hatch (“birth”, as in the hatching of an egg); match (“marriage”, as in the matching of bride and groom); and despatch (“death”, in the sense of “burial”)
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