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  YOKE   noun
An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, jugum, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy. A thousand apologies for withholding it.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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