Dunmow

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.

Proper Noun

• Both Great Dunmow and Little Dunmow; the former Dunmow railway station was in Great Dunmow.