marriageable

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In India, the legal marriageable age is 21 for men and 18 for women.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 4, 2023

Once Rhaenyra becomes marriageable, Viserys fields a plethora of suitors for her hand.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022

"We can learn from Sri Lanka, which increased the marriageable age for girls, or from Bangladesh and Vietnam, which enabled a basket of non-permanent contraceptives to reach women on their doorstep."

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2021

She Stoops to Conquer A marriageable young woman sets her sights on a well-to-do Londoner in Oliver Goldsmith’s 19th century romantic comedy.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2018

But if I made myself unsellable here, my parents need only wait until China, and there, where anything happens, they would be able to unload us, even me—sellable, marriageable.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston