单词 | wedding breakfast |
释义 | > as lemmaswedding breakfast wedding breakfast n. a celebratory meal eaten just after a wedding (now at any time of day) by the newly-wed couple and their guests; cf. breakfast n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > wedding feast marriage feast?1533 marriage dinner1552 bride-banquet1600 spouse-feast1601 marriage table1603 bridal dinnera1616 wedding-dinner1633 wedding-feast1633 wedding-supper1695 wedding-table1722 breakfast1847 wedding breakfast1850 wedding-banquet1855 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > breakfast breakfast1847 wedding breakfast1850 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xv. 144 There is a wedding breakfast. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxx. 294 To make the furnished lodging decent for the wedding breakfast. 1859 Habits Good Society xv. 372 It must be borne in mind that the wedding-breakfast is not a dinner. 1962 Sunday Times 11 Nov. 25/4 They married in church, and had a wedding breakfast but no honeymoon. < as lemmas |
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