silver feast

English

Alternative forms

• silver-feast

Pronunciation

• 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.