# mariage
## English
### Noun

mariage (countable and uncountable, plural mariages)
* Obsolete spelling of marriage.
** 1556, John Heywood, chapter 70, in The Spider and the Flie. […], London: […] Tho[mas] Powell, →OCLC; republished as A[dolphus] W[illiam] Ward, editor, The Spider and the Flie. […] (Publications of the Spenser Society, New Series; 6), Manchester: […] [Charles E. Simms] for the Spenser Society, 1894, →OCLC, page 327:[P]olicie, and pittie, pictured thus, / I take man and wife, and temperance (as who ſaie) / Miniſter in this mariage, I diſcus.
** 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book I, page 941 [19]:For Images, reliques, prohibition of meates and mariage, and differēce of apparel, although som alteracion begā than amōgst certain, yet al this while, truth was euer able to match wyth errour and superstition, and that with the most consent of voices, amongst the learned.
** 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “The eighth reason, It is probable, or rather certain, that every one who happ’ns to marry, hath not the calling, and therefore upon unfitnesse found and consider’d, force ought not to be us’d”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book I, page 27:As for the cuſtome that ſome parents and guardians have of forcing mariages, it will be better to ſay nothing of ſuch a ſavage inhumanity, […]

## French
### Etymology

From marier +‎ -age.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma.ʁjaʒ/
* Hyphenation: ma‧riage
* Audio (France):(file)
* Homophone: mariages
* Rhymes: -aʒ

### Noun

mariage m (plural mariages)
* marriage
    demande en mariage ― marriage proposal
    La distinction que font en droit certains pays entre le mariage et le partenariat domestique engendre des prestations et des droits différents.The distinction that the law of some countries made between marriage and domestic partnership has given rise to different benefits and rights.
* wedding
    mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux ― a proverb stating that rain on a wedding day is good luck (literally, “rainy wedding, happy marriage”)
* union

#### Derived terms

* donner en mariage
* mariage arrangé
* mariage blanc
* mariage civil
* mariage de convenance
* mariage forcé
* mariage homosexuel
* mariage religieux
* mariage républicain

#### Descendants

* Mauritian Creole: maryaz
* Seychellois Creole: maryaz
* → Japanese: マリアージュ (mariāju)
** → Korean: 마리아주 (mariaju)
* → Polish: mariaż
* → Romanian: mariaj

### See also

* célibat
* concubinage
* fiançailles
* PACS

### Further reading

* “mariage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* margeai

## Middle English
### Etymology

Old French mariage.

### Noun

mariage (plural mariages)
* marriage

#### Descendants

* English: marriage

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French mariage.

### Noun

mariage m (plural mariages)
* marriage

## Old French
### Etymology

marier +‎ -age.

### Noun

mariage oblique singular, m (oblique plural mariages, nominative singular mariages, nominative plural mariage)
* marriage; wedding

#### Descendants

* Middle French: mariage
** French: mariage
* → Middle English: mariage
** English: marriage
* → Middle Armenian: մարիաճ (mariač)