"couple-beggar" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a verb-noun compound, \"one who couples beggars\"; later extended to cases where the spouses were not destitute.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "couple-beggars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "couple-beggar (plural couple-beggars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836, Mrs S.C. Hall, Harry O'Reardon, Or, Illustrations of Irish Pride, page 13",
          "text": "Yet you'd have no license, but be married by beggarly bans ! [...] Sure it's wonderful you don't seek out a couple-beggar, and get married like the heathens in the time of Nebecudnazar !",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Dympna McLoughlin, “Women and sexuality in nineteenth century Ireland”, in The Irish Journal of Psychology, volume 15, pages 266–275",
          "text": "these destitute paupers believed themselves to be married, since they had paid a small sum of money to a 'couple beggar' and in return he performed a rudimentary ritual over them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who, for a fee, performs an unauthorised wedding service, especially for poor people (originally beggars)."
      ],
      "id": "en-couple-beggar-en-noun-IYquaDkZ",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) One who, for a fee, performs an unauthorised wedding service, especially for poor people (originally beggars)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buckle-beggar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple-beggar"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Originally a verb-noun compound, \"one who couples beggars\"; later extended to cases where the spouses were not destitute.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "couple-beggars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "couple-beggar (plural couple-beggars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1836, Mrs S.C. Hall, Harry O'Reardon, Or, Illustrations of Irish Pride, page 13",
          "text": "Yet you'd have no license, but be married by beggarly bans ! [...] Sure it's wonderful you don't seek out a couple-beggar, and get married like the heathens in the time of Nebecudnazar !",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1994, Dympna McLoughlin, “Women and sexuality in nineteenth century Ireland”, in The Irish Journal of Psychology, volume 15, pages 266–275",
          "text": "these destitute paupers believed themselves to be married, since they had paid a small sum of money to a 'couple beggar' and in return he performed a rudimentary ritual over them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who, for a fee, performs an unauthorised wedding service, especially for poor people (originally beggars)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) One who, for a fee, performs an unauthorised wedding service, especially for poor people (originally beggars)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "buckle-beggar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "couple-beggar"
}