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RussellCattle

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6. Looked up "Living over the Brush....

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Fri Dec 25, 2020, 11:50 PM

Dec 2020

What does 'Living over the brush' mean?

Living together out of wedlock. "They are living over the brush" originates from a form of marriage when a couple held hands and jumped over a besom to signal their commitment to each other, because they couldn't have a church marriage.

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'We Turned 90, Moved In Together, Then Got The Vaccine': Lily & Trevor, Her Days Younger 'Toy Boy' [View all] appalachiablue Dec 2020 OP

TY sheshe2 Dec 2020 #1

Love this couple & after dancing for decades they're appalachiablue Dec 2020 #2

Awwwwwwwwwww... calimary Dec 2020 #3

This is so sweet. And neither one of them looks 90. Dem2theMax Dec 2020 #4

True. sandensea Dec 2020 #5

You know it, dancing & a positive outlook. Dancing uses more appalachiablue Dec 2020 #9

Looked up "Living over the Brush.... RussellCattle Dec 2020 #6

So then I had to look up "besom"...... RussellCattle Dec 2020 #7

This is how I can and do kill an evening here on that black hole we call the D.U. RussellCattle Dec 2020 #8

LOL! Dem2theMax Dec 2020 #11

Amen, brother, and five hours is no exageration, as in "Is it 2 A.M. already?" RussellCattle Dec 2020 #12

It's so easy to do, isn't it? Dem2theMax Dec 2020 #13

'Jump the broom' old custom. A guy suggested this when appalachiablue Dec 2020 #10