love match
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of love match
First recorded in 1740–50
Example Sentences
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He says some couples will go to great lengths to convince the authorities that they are a genuine love match when their eye is more on the benefits on offer.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023
It’s a love match Kelly joyously celebrates by dancing through the best downpour MGM's money could buy in one of the most celebrated scenes in Hollywood history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2019
That it was a love match on both sides is well known, and, until the untimely death of the Prince Consort, they were models of conjugal love and felicity.
From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by John Ashton
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