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nuptials

NOUN
marriage ceremony
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Nuptials are held all over the island, airborne in helicopters, or afloat, on the ferries that import the marriage-bound.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2016

They discuss Albert Camus, and the president tells how on a recent trip to Algeria he made a detour to the town of Tipasa because it was the scene of Camus' 1938 book Nuptials.

From BBC • Jul. 29, 2011

Nuptials in developed nations almost always represent an accommodation between tradition and society as it really is — as this one did.

From Time • Apr. 29, 2011

Marshal of the Nuptials None, but everything went off to perfection.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nuptials, bacchanalian fêtes, games, and dances, are crowded upon their sculptured sides, in seeming mockery of the pitiable relics of humanity within.

From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh




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