silver feast

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  • Rhymes: -iːst

Noun

silver feast (plural silver feasts)

  1. (rare) Synonym of silver wedding, a 25th wedding anniversary.
    • 1796, John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, volume II, page 216:
      The celebration of what he called his Silver-feast, being the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage.
    • 1806 January 7, Anna Letitia Barbauld, letter in Works [1825], Vol. II, p. 125:
      We should have had great pleasure in keeping with you your silver feast, as the Germans call it when a couple have lived happily a quarter of a century together.
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