Meanings
plural wedding marches
- entertainmentA slow-tempo march played during a wedding.
The musicians had been quietly singing some familiar Christian songs but then the singing stopped and the music turned into a wedding march as the procession started down the small hallway. First, Sandra, in her yellow bridesmaid dress and carrying a small bouquet of yellow roses […]
2009, Jim Hayden, The Year of God's Promise, page 3251 more example
"Oh, there isn't much danger, as long as I have got breath in my nostrils," said Peik, and took a ram's horn, which he began blowing; and when he had blown a wedding march on it he put the horn to his sister's nostrils and blew life into her again and she rose up as if nothing had been the matter with her.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 197
Translations
Danish bryllupsmarch
- bryllupsmarchslow-tempo march played during a wedding
Irish máirseáil bhainise
- máirseáil bhainiseslow-tempo march played during a wedding
Swedish bröllopsmarsch
- bröllopsmarschslow-tempo march played during a wedding
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