Fascinator vs Wedding - What's the difference?
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A fascinating person
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A delicate, often frivolous head decoration worn on the hair, primarily by women
(dated, US) A type of wool or lace headscarf
* 1885 , , Volume 14,
Marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.
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* 1909 , , Chapter XXIV,
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Joining of two or more parts.
* 1900 , Eve Emery Dye, McLoughlin and Old Oregon , 2005 facsimile edition,
* 1991 , Richard M. Merelman, Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada, and the United States ,
* 2000 , Benton E. Gup, New Financial Architecture: Banking Regulation in the 21st Century ,
* 2002 , Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff, Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 ,
As nouns the difference between fascinator and wedding
is that fascinator is a fascinating person while wedding is marriage ceremony; ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.As a verb wedding is
or wedding can be to participate in a wedding.fascinator
English
Noun
(en noun)References
* "Fascinator", page362in Dictionary of American Regional English , volume 2, 1985.
See also
* (wikipedia "fascinator") ----wedding
English
(wikipedia wedding)Etymology 1
From (etyl) wedding, weddynge, from (etyl) . Cognate with Middle Dutch weddinghe.Verb
(head)- Accordingly the Prince, accepting her largesse, sought the King to whom he had pledged his parents (and they were still with him in all weal and welfare) and going in to him made his salam and kissed ground and told him the whole tale of the past and the conditions of death or marriage he had made with the King's daughter and of his wedding her after overcoming her in contention.
Noun
(en noun)- Her announcement was quite a surprise, coming a month after she published the words "I hate weddings with a passion and a fury I can only partially explain rationally."
- Simple and brief was the wedding , as that of Ruth and of Boaz.
- Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom.
- After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.
- The wedding of our three companies took place last week.
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- That wedding of the fur companies is historic.
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- Significantly, Grand Metropolitan elaborates upon the wedding of tradition and consumer narcissim that is the distinctively British version of private-sector collective representations;.
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- The wedding of commercial with universal banking would result in more careful project evaluation and selection and a closer monitoring of existing loans.
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- The wedding of black brass bands and orchestras to jubilee concert companies was a consolidation that favored both promoters and musicians.