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black weddings

black weddings is the plural of black wedding.

Meaning of black wedding

Noun

black wedding (plural black weddings)

  1. A 19th century Ashkenazi ritual involving a wedding between two orphans that takes place in a graveyard, intended to assist in ending an epidemic.
    • On the eve of the wedding of Hekht's protagonist, Isaac Seltz, war breaks out, his future father-in-law dies, and an epidemic begins. Seltz would prefer to put off the wedding but the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter do not allow it: When Seltz heard it, he was horrified, but he did not speak out....2008, Zsuzsa Hetényi, In a Maelstrom: The History of Russian-Jewish Prose (1860-1940)

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What is black weddings the plural of?
Black weddings is the plural of black wedding.

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