silver wedding

English

Etymology

A calque of German Silberhochzeit or silberne Hochzeit, first attested 1845.

Noun

silver wedding (plural silver weddings)

  1. The silver anniversary of a wedding, the 25th anniversary of a marriage.
    • 1845, Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia: Poems, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1849, page 28:
      The Silver Wedding! on some pensive ear
      From towers remote as sound the silvery bells,
      To-day from one far unforgotten year
      A silvery faint memorial music swells.
    • 1850, Jemima von Tautphoeus, Initials, volume I, page 121:
      ‘Perhaps you have no golden or silver wedding in England?’
      ‘I confess I never heard of any thing of the kind,’ said Hamilton...

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Translations
25th anniversary of a marriage — see silver anniversary

References
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