golden wedding en · NOUN
Meanings
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The golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
...in fact the paper, wooden and tin wedding presents are seldom anything but jokes. Crystal is the earliest that is likely to be taken seriously by the gift-bearers. Silver is always serious, and the golden wedding a quite sacred event.
1922, Emily Post, chapter XXII, in Etiquette:‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’ ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton... ‘To be fifty years married and to have a golden wedding, is a sort of event in a family.’
1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| golden weddings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
ruby wedding (40th) · diamond wedding (60th · 75th) · silver wedding (25th)