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Nuptials

//ˈnʌp.ʃəlz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A wedding ceremony. plural, plural-only

    "To Night, to Night, this fatal Moment, novv / Our dreadful Father's Nuptials are preparing, / And I muſt loſe bright Monima for ever."

  2. 2
    the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed wordnet

Etymology

From nuptial, borrowed from Latin nūptiālis (“pertaining to marriage”), from nūptiae (“wedding”) (also plural only), from nūpta, from nūbō (“to marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneubho-, *snewbʰ- (“to marry, wed”). Cognate with French noces and Italian nozze.

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