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Rush-ring. World English Historical Dictionary

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Rush-ring. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Rush-ring TO MARRY WITH A RUSH-RING, verb. phr. (old).—1.  To marry in jest; and (2) to feign marriage. See quot. 1776.

1   1579.  SPENSER, The Shepheardes Calender, Nov., 114. Where bene … The knotted RUSH-RINGES, and gilt rosemaree?

2   1598.  SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, ii. 2, 22. As fit … as Tib’s RUSH for Tom’s forefinger.

3   c. 1610.  FLETCHER, The Faithful Shepherdess, i. 3.        Or gather RUSHES to make many a ring, For thy long finger.

4   1668.  DAVENANT, The Rivals.        I’ll crown thee with a garland of straw then,   And I’ll MARRY thee WITH A RUSH RING.

5   1684.  D’URFEY, The Winchester Wedding [Several New Songs].        And Tommy was so to Katty,   And WEDDED her WITH A RUSH-RING.… And thus of Fifty fair Maids … Scarce Five of the Fifty was left ye,   That so did return again.

6   1776.  BRAND, Observations on Popular Antiquities (1813), II. 38. A custom extremely hurtful to the interests of morality appears antiently to have prevailed both in England and in other countries, of marrying with a RUSH RING; chiefly practised, however, by designing men, for the purpose of debauching their mistresses, who sometimes were so infatuated as to believe that this mock ceremony was a real Marriage.

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