wedding-day
See also: wedding day
English
Noun
wedding-day (plural wedding-days)
- Alternative form of wedding day
- 1870, Old Boomerang [pseudonym; John Richard Houlding], Rural and City Life; or, The Fortunes of the Stubble Family, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, page 47:
- 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.
- 1876, S. L. Brand, Dora: A Life Story, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, Limited, […], page 85:
- 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.
- 1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine:
- “My wedding-day!” she thought to herself. “What would my father think if he knew this was my wedding-day?”