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mal mariée
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Etymology
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Learned borrowing
from
French
mal
mariée
(
“
poorly married [woman]
”
)
.
Noun
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mal mariée
(
plural
mal mariées
)
A young
woman
with a much older, jealous, and
controlling
husband
, especially as a
literary
motif
in
medieval
European
romances
.