单词 | platinum anniversary |
释义 | > as lemmasplatinum anniversary 2. Designating a particularly important anniversary (now in most Western countries spec. the 70th anniversary, and in South Asia spec. the 75th anniversary) of a significant event, as a wedding, the accession of a monarch, etc. Chiefly in platinum anniversary, platinum jubilee, platinum wedding.Cf. golden adj. 11. ΚΠ 1888 Edinb. Evening News 27 Feb. (4th ed.) The happier Edward III. and his good Queen Philippa might have made a ‘platinum wedding’ of it had they been so minded. 1905 Daily Mirror 18 Aug. 3/3 ‘Platinum’ wedding... Diamond weddings pale before that to be celebrated at Verjux (Saône) on August 20. M. Farion is a century old. His wife, whom he married seventy-five years ago, is ninety-two. 1920 Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) 27 Oct. 10/2 Dr. and Mrs. John E. Moore..hope to celebrate soon their platinum wedding anniversary, if there is any such thing. Last Thursday Dr. and Mrs. Moore gave a large party in honor of the sixty-eighth anniversary of their marriage, and that being almost twenty years after their golden wedding, they think they are entitled to another ‘real’ anniversary in a short while. 2010 Times of India 14 Mar. b4/5 The Reserve Bank of India has, as part of its Platinum Jubilee Celebrations, set up an exhibition of bank notes issued since 1935. 2022 Independent (Nexis) 6 Feb. (News section) The Queen has become the first British monarch in history to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. < as lemmas |
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