English Dictionary

Dunmow

noun

Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married.

Dunmow is a small town in Essex.

意味（1）

Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married.

The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe.