banns
Example Sentences
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“I’m going to pack up my two kids and my dog and drive up with all my documents,” including their banns, Quebec’s required public announcement of an impending marriage.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2020
A photograph of the wedding banns has been posted in several newspapers.
From BBC ● May 21, 2018
The marriage banns, posted on a bulletin board in the town hall, included those for an auto-body painter and a cashier, a zinc roofer and his stay-at-home fiancée, and an optician and a midwife.
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
The couple have posted their wedding banns at the London registry office where the musician married his first wife Linda over 40 years ago.
From Reuters ● Oct. 3, 2011
The fact that gossip had published the banns was one of the reasons I had come east.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
