Dunmow

English en Noun - Used with reference to a tradition in Little Dunmow, Essex, according to which a flitch of bacon would be awarded by the priory to a couple who could swear after a year of marriage that they had never had an argument or regretted getting married. The Wife of Bath's Tale The bacon was nat fet for hem, I trowe, / That som men han in Essex at Dunmowe. 32 Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was. Proper noun Both en Great Dunmow and en Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow. Anagrams en dmnouw Downum