What does wedding-day mean?
Wedding-day means Dated form of wedding day..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Dated form of wedding day..
On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]
Perhaps he wants to know if us have got any ready money to give away with Mag. Shouldn’t wonder, for it’s often axed for on wedding-days by gentlefolks; though it seems queer enough to me that a man should expect to be paid for marrying a good wife.
To-morrow was Edmund’s wedding-day. I thought how lovely Bella woud look as a bride, and then reflected on my own sad fate.
“My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think if he knew this was my wedding-day?”
Even the wedding-day’s “traditional white” is subjected to changes in fashion.
[W]e have to see happy marriage not as a gift handed to us on our wedding-day, but as something we have to create together by long years of toil and effort.
“When we lived in Fawley Avenue, Hyde, we used to overlook St George’s Church and every April 23 when St George’s flag was flying, we used to tell the neighbours that it was to mark our wedding-day,” said Mrs [Doris] Garside at her cottage.
Many, as they approached their own wedding-day, had never, or hardly ever, changed a nappy or bottled or potted a baby or de-winded it or coped with a squalling red-faced infant or into-everything toddler.
Use wedding-day when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wedding-day means Dated form of wedding day..
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On the morning of the wedding-day, the image of Corinna was present to Oswald with more vivid semblance than ever; […]
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