And you were a girl child to be married off to some old lord when the time came.
After giving birth to several children, the older women would often be married off to much younger men (about the age of 25).
But Anita's parents have already decided to marry their daughter off to somebody else.
"Is that why you came here, to marry me off to someone else?"
A young woman was married off to a man thinking that she comes from a wealthy family.
"The press is always trying to marry me off to someone."
Or was she being married off to someone somewhere to get her out of the way?
They were married off to older men as third or fourth wives.
I have promised to marry her off to a man.
At nine, she had been married off to a man in his thirties.