Brewer's: Parti

(A). An eligible person for a big marriage.

“Prince Frederick Leopold is a parti, as he has inherited the bulk of his father's immense fortune [twenty-four millions sterling].” —Newspaper Paragraph, 1885.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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