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royal marriage

American  

noun

Cards.
  1. a meld of the king and queen of trumps, as in pinochle.


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“Queen Charlotte” shows how the racially integrated world of “Bridgerton” came to be — through a mixed-race royal marriage and the extension of titles to Black aristocracy.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2023

But it's not the only royal marriage that combusted during that time.

From Salon Sep. 26, 2022

The question prompted two MPs from Mr Rutte's own liberal VVD party to ask whether current restrictions on royal marriage met with the "norms and values of 2021".

From BBC Oct. 12, 2021

None of the ceremonies that usually accompany a royal marriage will take place, and the princess will forgo a one-off payment of a million dollars to which she is entitled, media reports have said.

From Reuters Oct. 1, 2021

Alliance through royal marriage was as common in eleventh-century Mixteca as it was in seventeenth-century Europe.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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