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country marriage Hist. 
among fur traders and pioneers, a common-law marriage between a white man and an Indian girl.
See also: country alliance
- 1939 In earlier days they [traders] had handled the situation more conveniently by contracting a so-called "country marriage" which in reality, was no marriage at all. . . .
- 1939 In earlier days they [traders] had handled the situation more conveniently by contracting a so-called "country marriage" which in reality, was no marriage at all. . . .