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She is of marriageable age.
He has four marriageable daughters
In the past, the slight excess of males at birth was abolished within a few years by higher mortality, so that there was an excess of females of marriageable age.
Young men of marriageable age, in particular, had to build up a herd, both for bridewealth (roora) payments and farming purposes.
Marriageable women who choose not to remarry or to live under their male relatives' tutelage also stand outside of this circuit of obligation and authority, of entitlement and obedience.
Young males and females of marriageable age were not distributed randomly within households either.
The future squire's boyishness thus spills into "girlishness," and although he makes attempts at asserting independence, they are as feeble and lightly treated as those of a marriageable daughter.
It might be, therefore, that the impact on marriageable-age women of economic disadvantage was to delay marriage, whereas poor men might never marry.
There may have been proportionately more children in 1843 than in 1793, and thus a relatively smaller ' marriageable ' population.
In all probability the numbers in the younger age groups will be further augmented by future immigration as they grow to marriageable age.
