double wedding

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double wedding (plural double weddings)

  1. A double ceremony where two engaged couples, often friends or siblings, arrange for two simultaneous or consecutive weddings.
    • 1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic[1]:
      Instead of a dénoûment consisting in the establishment of a common-school system in Acadian Louisiana, we have a double wedding; the artist was too much for the theorist, and we are heartily glad of it.

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