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Webster 1913 Edition
Wedding
Wed′ding
,Noun.
[AS.
wedding
.] Nuptial ceremony; nuptial festivities; marriage; nuptials.
Simple and brief was the
wedding
, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Longfellow.
☞ Certain anniversaries of an unbroken marriage have received fanciful, and more or less appropriate, names. Thus, the fifth anniversary is called the wooden wedding; the tenth, the tin wedding; the fifteenth, the crystal wedding; the twentieth, the china wedding; the twenty-fifth, the silver wedding; the fiftieth, the golden wedding; the sixtieth, the diamond wedding. These anniversaries are often celebrated by appropriate presents of wood, tin, china, silver, gold, etc., given by friends.
☞ Wedding is often used adjectively; as, wedding cake, wedding cards, wedding clothes, wedding day, wedding feast, wedding guest, wedding ring, etc.
Let her beauty be her
wedding
dower. Shakespeare
Wedding favor
, a marriage favor. See under
Marriage
.Webster 1828 Edition
Wedding
WEDDING
,ppr.
WEDDING
,Noun.
Let her beauty be her wedding dower.