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Spenard divorce
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spenard divorce
English
Alternative forms
en spenard divorce Spenard spenard
Etymology
en Spenard divorce. From where such events frequently took place, in Spenard, Alaska, USA; where wives killed their husbands. en Spenard: Then and Now Victoria Petersen Last Frontier Magazine 20 June 2017 Spenard became famous for crimes of passion; wives killing their husbands became so common that local colloquialism noted the event as a “Spenard divorce”.
Noun
en Alaska _ slang en mariticide (wives killing husbands)
en From Spenard divorces to the bar scene that peaked during pipeline construction, many Spenard legends have an illegal or at least illicit aspect. History of Spenard: How a squatter, bootlegger and showman gave Anchorage’s most renowned road its name David Reamer 17 May 2020 Anchorage Daily News
en by extension en spousal en homicide
References
en terms derived from toponyms
en Murder