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Matchmaking   Listen
noun
Matchmaking  n.  
1.
The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
2.
The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.





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"Matchmaking" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever so much of a gentleman and a privy councillor, but if you have a daughter you cannot be secure of immunity from that petty bourgeois atmosphere which is so often brought into your house and into your mood by the attentions of suitors, by matchmaking and marriage. I can never reconcile myself, for instance, to the expression of triumph on my wife's face every time Gnekker is in our company, nor can I reconcile myself to the bottles of Lafitte, port and sherry which are only ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov


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