English Dictionary

Dunmow

名詞

不可算名詞

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.

日本語の意味

Little Dunmow（エセックス州）の伝統に関連して用いられる用語。具体的には、結婚後1年間、夫婦が一度も争いをせず、結婚を後悔しなかったことを誓った場合、修道院がその証として豚の一切れ（bacon）を贈るという伝統を指す。

Every summer the villagers reenact the Dunmow, awarding a flitch of bacon to any couple who can swear they never argued or regretted getting married after a year.

毎夏、村人たちはエセックスの小さな村に伝わるベーコン一切れ贈呈の風習を再現し、1年経っても喧嘩したことがなく結婚を後悔していないと誓える夫婦にベーコン一切れを贈る。

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.