適齢期てきれいき (tekireiki)

marriageable age

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適齢期 (てきれいき, tekireiki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “marriageable age”.

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Example sentences 5

あの いえには 適齢てきれい むすめさんがいます

That family has a grown up daughter in her prime.

出産適齢期の女性の数は実際には減少している。

The number of women of childbearing age is actually declining.27

適齢期になった彼女はあちこちの家庭に送り出され、彼女の演奏や象牙のような挙措は大いに称賛された。

When she came to the age of marriage she was sent out to many houses, where her playing and ivory manners were much admired.

歳のとき、当時としては結婚適齢期を遥かに過ぎた年齢になってから徳川斉昭との婚約がまとまり、江戸に降嫁。

When she was 27 years old, although it was beyond the marriageable age at that time, she was able to get engaged to Nariaki TOKUGAWA; She went to Edo for Koka (marriage of an Imperial princess to a subject).