- Gret|na Green
- Gret|na Green «GREHT nuh»,any place to which eloping couples go to be married.╂[< Gretna Green, a village in Scotland, where until 1856 runaway couples were married without parental consent]
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Gret|na Green
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Gretna Green — Gret|na Green a village in southern Scotland on the border with England. Until 1940, the marriage laws were less strict in Scotland than in England, and so many young English couples, whose parents did not want them to marry, ran away to get… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Gretna Green — Gret′na Green′ [[t]ˈgrɛt nə[/t]] n. geg a village in S Scotland, to which many English couples formerly eloped to be married … From formal English to slang
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