Brewer's: Bride of the Sea

Venice; so called from the ancient ceremony of the Doge, who threw a ring into the Adriatic, saying, “We wed thee, O sea, in token of perpetual domination.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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