banns
Example Sentences
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A photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers.
From BBC ● May 21, 2018
The marriage banns, posted on a bulletin board in the town hall, included those for an auto-body painter and a cashier, a zinc roofer and his stay-at-home fiancée, and an optician and a midwife.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
As a result, you may miss some crucial plot details, like the fact that Claudio and Julietta were really considered married; Claudio just had not paid for the banns.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2012
The banns allow McCartney to marry New York heiress Nancy Shevell any time 16 days after the September 14 posting at the Register office.
From Reuters ● Sep. 17, 2011
I did not want to be associated with the issue of a campesina who had had no respect for the holy banns of matrimony or for the good name of Mirabal.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
