fathers-in-lawLinguistically, this took the form of avoiding speaking the name offathers-in-lawand other male relatives by marriage.From theCambridge English CorpusNevertheless, there have been one or two cases wherefathers-in-lawhave been allowed to marry their daughters-in-law.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0In that house was a father, two sons, three uncles and twofathers-in-law, all of whom had served their time in the industry.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0I would make the basic pension ￡5 at least, allowing all the other benefits, for widows, children,fathers-in-law, wives and so forth, to remain as they are at the moment.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Women students frequently married in their late teens and continued their studies in the households of theirfathers-in-law.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He inherited the properties of both hisfathers-in-law.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, his happiness is short-lived as he soon realizes that he now has twofathers-in-law.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He was married three times, two of which were quickly ended byfathers-in-lawwho could not understand his literary habits.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/fathers-in-law##
