marriageable
- s of girls or women who are eligible to marry
- Like 74 "flying fraeu-leins" who arrived by chartered plane a few days earlier, they were marriageable girls brought in from West Germany by the Australian government at the .
- African parents still counsel a marriageable son, "First find yourself a good mother.
- Indeed, Wilson estimates that there are fewer than 50 "marriageable" black men between the ages of 20 and 24 for every 100 black women of the same age group.