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silver wedding

noun

Etymology

A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested 1845.

Definitions

  1. The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.

    • The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear From towers remote as sound the silvery bells, To-day from one far unforgotten year A silvery faint memorial music swells.
    • ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...

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