| 单词 | white wedding |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite wedding white wedding n. a wedding at which the bride wears a formal white dress.Frequently also implying that the wedding ceremony and reception will follow a traditional format. Sometimes also assumed to have connotations of purity or even of the bride's virginity. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > other types of wedding confarreation1598 farreation1656 coemption1676 Scotch marriage1762 foot washing1780 civil union1837 white wedding1840 hand-fastening1899 Anand Karaj1938 destination wedding1990 1840 Metrop. Mag. May 75 She is so taken up with the important matter, whether her wedding shall be a white wedding or a coloured one, that I verily think there is danger of Harry Hooke being himself forgotten. 1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surveys (1987) ii. 393 The weather suggested more than once a ‘White wedding’ of a rather fairy nature. 1949 N. Mitford Love in Cold Climate i. xvi. 170 She was awfully old for a white wedding, thirty or something terrible. 1976 Listener 29 July 105/1 Young black girls [in Soweto] now demand white weddings with lots of bridesmaids and floating veils. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 24 Jan. 27 How many women, when faced with a chaotic household of screaming kids, a leaking washing machine and a husband on his way out to the golf course, stop, sigh and think, ‘It's OK, at least I had a beautiful white wedding’? < as lemmas |
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