wedding ring

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wedding ring

A ring, often one of a pair of plain gold or platinum bands, given during the wedding ceremony by the groom or bride to his or her future spouse. Also called wedding band.

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wedding ring

(Jewellery) a band ring with parallel sides, typically of precious metal, worn to indicate married status

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wed′ding ring`

1. a ring, usu. of precious metal, given by the groom to the bride during a marriage ceremony.

2. a ring similarly given by the bride to the groom.

Also called wed′ding band`.

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Noun

wedding ring - a ring (usually plain gold) given to the bride (and sometimes one is also given to the groom) at the wedding

wedding band

ring, band - jewelry consisting of a circlet of precious metal (often set with jewels) worn on the finger; "she had rings on every finger"; "he noted that she wore a wedding band"

Translations

خَاتِـمُ الزَّوَاج

snubní prsten

vielsesring

Ehering

βέρα

alianza de matrimonio argolla de matrimonio

vihkisormus

alliance

vjenčani prsten

fede nuziale anello matrimoniale

結婚指輪

결혼 반지

vigselring

แหวนแต่งงาน

yüzük

nhẫn cưới

结婚戒指

wedding ring

n → fede f, vera

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

wedding ring

→ خَاتِـمُ الزَّوَاج snubní prsten vielsesring Ehering βέρα alianza de matrimonio, argolla de matrimonio vihkisormus alliance vjenčani prsten fede nuziale 結婚指輪 결혼 반지 trouwring giftering obrączka ślubna aliança обручальное кольцо vigselring แหวนแต่งงาน yüzük nhẫn cưới 结婚戒指

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Master always wore his plain gold wedding ring on the little finger of his left hand.

"Do you tell me," said the sergeant, "that the wedding ring was BELOW the other?"

"Then the murderer, or whoever it was, first took off this ring you call the nugget ring, then the wedding ring, and afterwards put the nugget ring back again."

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It does not mention the fact that when the man was raised up, a woman's wedding ring fell upon the floor.

"In Brixton Road, this morning," it ran, "a plain gold wedding ring, found in the roadway between the `White Hart' Tavern and Holland Grove.

"It's this as has brought me, good gentlemen," she said, dropping another curtsey; "a gold wedding ring in the Brixton Road.

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Once she stopped, and taking off her wedding ring, flung it upon the carpet.

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Athos, kneeling down before the queen, trembling and very cold, drew from his bosom, inclosed in the same case, the order set in diamonds which the queen had given to Lord de Winter and the wedding ring which Charles I.

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Pierre quickly took out his purse and watch, but could not manage for some time to get the wedding ring off his fat finger.

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"My mother's wedding ring. I've worn it around my neck always, like a locket.

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There was the garnet set which Aunt March wore when she came out, the pearls her father gave her on her wedding day, her lover's diamonds, the jet mourning rings and pins, the queer lockets, with portraits of dead friends and weeping willows made of hair inside, the baby bracelets her one little daughter had worn, Uncle March's big watch, with the red seal so many childish hands had played with, and in a box all by itself lay Aunt March's wedding ring, too small now for her fat finger, but put carefully away like the most precious jewel of them all.

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Why, it's in twenty-dollar gold pieces, in gold watches, in wedding rings. No matter what happens to me, the twenty-dollar pieces, the watches, and the wedding rings remain.