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Noun
golden wedding (plural golden weddings)
- The golden anniversary of a wedding, the 50th anniversary of a marriage.
1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:‘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.’
1922, Emily Post, chapter XXII, in Etiquette:...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.
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