honeymoon

"Honeymoon, a term proverbially applied to such as be new married, which will not fall out at the first, but the one loveth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceeding love appearing to assuage, the which time the vulgar people call the honey moon".
Origin: [from Richard Huloet's Abecedarium Anglico Latinum]
1552

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