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banns plural noun
/bænz/ n Definition
a public announcement, made in a church, that two people are going to get married
The banns were published in their local parish church.
(Definition of banns plural noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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