banns

• He'd talked them out of making it formal until the banns could be announced in the National Cathedral, all the requirements of the Church satisfied. —  Analog May, 1971
• She fell in love with this young man of hers, and their banns were asked in some church in London; and the old lord her father actually heard 'em asked the three times, and didn't notice her name, being gabbled on wi' a host of others. —  A Pair of Blue Eyes
• Next day, their banns were axed in church, an' in dree weeks she was My Ladyship Twas a battle-royal that began then. —  Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches
• This was a local way of publishing the banns, the names of the parties and the announcement of the event to take place being written on a slip of paper, and inserted on the numerous stumps bordering the corduroy road, that all who ran might read, though perchance none might scan it save some bewildered fox or wandering bear; the squire read the ceremony from the prayer-book, received his dollar, and further form for wedlock was required not. —  Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick Gleaned from Actual Observation and Experience During a Residence Of Seven Years in That Interesting Colony
• She must have been having you on, for the banns was up at St. George's this three weeks St. —  The Foolish Lovers

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