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fur-trade marriage Hist. 
among fur traders and pioneers, a common-law marriage between a white man and an Indian girl.
See also: country alliance
- 1940 [These two had already been married without benefit of clergy in the old fur trade way. . . .]
- 1942 Others were bound together by the so-called fur-trade marriages, the legal validity of which was upheld in later years by the Supreme Court in Quebec.
- 1940 [These two had already been married without benefit of clergy in the old fur trade way. . . .]