settled

settled
   Irish
   unlikely ever to many
   A use in a community where remoteness, differences in religion, and tribalism often combined to limit the catchment area, especially for a bride:
    Being generally regarded as 'settled' in the expressive Irish phrase, into single blessedness, he sprang it on all of us that was going to be married to a schoolteacher. (Fingall, 1977)

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