SMITHFIELD MATCH

PRONUNCIATION: (SMITH-feeld match)

MEANING: nnoun: A marriage of convenience, especially one arranged for money.

ETYMOLOGY: After Smithfield, London, long associated with markets and fairs, including Bartholomew Fair (1133-1855). Earliest documented use: 1703.

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SMITHFIELD MATH - a bizarre arithmetic used to calculate the dowry in
a marriage of convenience, often yielding results dramatically different from
what the parties had expected

SITHFIELD MATCH - what takes place when a Jedi fights a practitioner of
the Dark Side of the Force in an outdoor venue

SMITHFIELD MACH - brother of Ernst Mach (researcher on aeroynamics
and high-velocity flight) who became an Anglophile and changed his name from Johann