Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A feast or entertainment in honor of a wedding.
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Examples
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I don't even know at what point we became man and wife; no clasp of hands, or exchange of tokens, or embracing the bride, just a final wail from the spirit-chief and a great yell from the assembly, and then off to the wedding-feast.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Yes indeed, the Eucharist is more than a meal, it is a wedding-feast.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The chalice signifies the wedding-feast: now the “hour” has come to which the wedding-feast of Cana had mysteriously alluded.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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On the morrow, the King made a wedding-feast to which he gathered all comers from the Islands of the Inner and
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Moreover, he made them a wedding-feast and treated them with exceeding munificence; and they ceased not abiding together in joy and happiness, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Severer of societies.
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Grandmarina gave a magnificent wedding-feast afterwards, in which there was everything and more to eat, and everything and more to drink.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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He fell down drunk, with a goblet of wine in his hand, at a wedding-feast at Lambeth, given in honour of the marriage of his standard-bearer, a Dane named TOWED THE PROUD.
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Grandmarina gave a magnificent wedding-feast afterwards, in which there was everything and more to eat, and everything and more to drink.
A Holiday Romance 2007
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This was the mummy of the cake intended in earlier days for the wedding-feast of
A Changed Man 2006
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He does not merely ‘make’ wine, but transforms the human wedding-feast into an image of the divine wedding-feast, to which the Father invites us through the Son and in which he gives us every good thing.
Pope Benedict at Altötting Argent 2006
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