banns
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In 1827, William came up with a plan to elope, telling Maria to meet him at the Red Barn on the Corder's farm, then run off to Ipswich to get the banns for their wedding.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
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
As a result, you may miss some crucial plot details, like the fact that Claudio and Julietta were really considered married; Claudio just had not paid for the banns.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2012
The banns list the couple as "James Paul McCartney" and "Nancy Shevell" and say he has had a previous marriage dissolved.
From Reuters ● Sep. 16, 2011
I did not want to be associated with the issue of a campesina who had had no respect for the holy banns of matrimony or for the good name of Mirabal.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
