重じゅう縁えん

noun

double marriage; intermarriage between families

Refers to two marriages linking the same two families, such as siblings from one family marrying siblings from another. A somewhat specialized term in kinship studies.

• あの二ふたつの家いえは重じゅう縁えんで結むすばれている。

  Those two families are connected by a double marriage.

• 重じゅう縁えんは、同おなじ家いえ同どう士しの間あいだで複ふく数すうの結けっ婚こんが行おこなわれることを指さす。

  重縁 refers to multiple marriages taking place between the same families.