English Explanatory Dictionary

red wedding

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.
  2. A situation involving carnage, bloodshed, or chaos; a massacre; a mass culling.

Word forms

red wedding red weddings

Etymology

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning associated with or supportive of communism. The second sense derives from the Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

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