banns

/bænz/

IPA: /B AE1 N Z/

noun

1
The announcement of a forthcoming marriage (legally required for a church wedding in England and Wales and read on the three Sundays preceding the marriage).
2
Historically, any public announcement of a coming event.
“The Banes which are reade beefore the beginninge of the playes of Chester, 4 June, 1600.”

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