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wedding (iou)



wedding noun. OE.
[from WED verb + -ING1.]
The action of WED verb; marriage. Formerly also, the married state, matrimony. OE.
A marriage ceremony; the performance of the ceremony itself; this with its accompanying celebrations. ME.
double wedding, shotgun wedding, white wedding, etc.
J. McGahern She set her heart on a..wedding..at the little village church. L. Grant-Adamson The family things..weddings, funerals and whatnot. S. Hill After the wedding, there was luncheon in a hotel.
b. With specifying adjective, as diamond, golden, silver, ruby, etc. A wedding anniversary. M19.
Comb.: wedding anniversary the anniversary of a wedding; wedding band N. Amer. a wedding ring; wedding breakfast a meal etc. usu. served between the marriage ceremony and the departure for the honeymoon; wedding-bush any of various Australian shrubs constituting the genus Ricinocarpos, of the spurge family, bearing clusters of fragrant starry white or pink flowers; esp. R. pinifolius and R. bowmanni; wedding cake a rich iced and decorated fruit cake, often with two or more tiers, served to guests at a wedding reception; fig. (freq. derog.) a building resembling a wedding cake in the ornateness of its architecture; wedding-cake adjective (fig., freq. derog.) designating or pertaining to a style of architecture characterized by its sumptuous ornateness; wedding canopy = CHUPPAH; wedding-card: bearing the names of the bride and groom and sent out as an announcement of the wedding (usu. in pl.); wedding-chest, wedding coffer Hist. an ornamental chest made to contain a bride's trousseau, a cassone; wedding day the day on which a marriage takes place or is due to take place; an anniversary of this day; wedding-favour arch. a white rosette or knot of ribbons worn by guests at a wedding; wedding-finger = ring finger s.v. RING noun1; wedding-garment (a) a garment appropriate to or worn at a wedding; (b) fig. (with allus. to Matthew 22:11) a qualification for participating in a feast of some kind; wedding group (a photograph of) a wedding party; wedding knives Hist. a pair of knives given to a bride as a symbol of marital status; wedding-knot (a) fig. the bond of matrimony; (b) Nautical a tie for uniting the looped ends of two ropes; wedding list a list of items which a couple about to be married would find acceptable as wedding presents; wedding-march a march (esp. that by Mendelssohn) composed for performance at a wedding, usu. played to signal the entrance of the bride or the exit of the couple; wedding night the night after a wedding, esp. as the night of a marriage's consummation; wedding-party the whole group of people gathered for a wedding; wedding reception a party at which the wedding guests are formally greeted and entertained after the marriage ceremony; wedding ring a ring worn to indicate married status; wedding-sheet Hist. a sheet laid on the bridal bed and sometimes kept to form a shroud for the bride at her death; wedding tackle slang a man's genitals.
weddinger noun (Scot. & dial.) a wedding guest; in pl., the whole wedding-party, including the bride and groom: E19.