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proposal of marriage

n. an offer of marriage [syn: marriage proposal, marriage offer, proposal]

Usage examples of "proposal of marriage".

And become confirmed, the moment you advance the proposal of marriage.

She had known, for example, exactly what she was doing when she sent an angry, bitter artisan halfway across the world with a proposal of marriage to the Emperor of Sarantium.

Nevertheless, a proposal of marriage which he had made to Elizabeth only two days before the eve of Saint Bartholomew, on behalf of the Duke of Alenç.