banns

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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

He and Shevell, 51, posted wedding banns last month in the same place where McCartney married his late first wife Linda in 1969, at the height of the Beatles' fame.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2011

The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald