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Brewer's: Conjugal
What pertains to conjuges (yoke-fellows). In ancient times a yoke (jugum) was put on a man and woman by way of marriage ceremony, and the two were said to be yoked together by marriage.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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