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Sibʹberidge (3 syl.)

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Banns of marriage. (Anglo-Saxon sibbe, alliance; whence the old English word sibrede, relationship, kindred.) (See Gossip.)

“For every man it schuldë drede

And Nameliche in his sibrede.”


Gower: Confessio Amantis.

 

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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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