An eligible person for a big marriage.
“Prince Frederick Leopold is a parti, as he has inherited the bulk of his father’s immense fortune [twenty-four millions sterling].”—Newspaper Paragraph, 1885.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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