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penny weddings

penny weddings is the plural of penny wedding.

Meaning of penny wedding

Noun

penny wedding (plural penny weddings)

  1. (Scotland, idiomatic, obsolete) A wedding at which the guests contribute payments in order to fund the event and to benefit the newly-married couple.
    • "Vera true, vera true—we'll have a' to pay, I doubt, less or mair—a sort of penny-wedding it will prove, where all men contribute to the young folk's maintenance, that they may not have just four bare legs in a bed together."1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 37, in The Fortunes of Nigel

Questions about penny weddings

What is penny weddings the plural of?
Penny weddings is the plural of penny wedding.

Words near penny weddings in the dictionary

  1. penny tray
  2. penny trays
  3. penny universities
  4. penny university
  5. penny wedding
  6. penny weddings
  7. penny weed
  8. penny whip
  9. penny whips
  10. penny whistle
  11. penny whistles

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