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Definition of Handfasted
1. handfast [v] - See also: handfast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handfasted
Literary usage of Handfasted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"Mention is made in some histories of Scotland that Kobert II. was handfasted to
Elizabeth More before he married Euphemia Hoss, daughter of Hugh, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last by Walter Scott (1833)
"When we are handfasted, as we term it, we are man and wife for a year and ...
handfasted 1"—repeated Warden. "Then," saia the preacher, " I tell thee, ..."