CEREMONY

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ceremony substantiv

1. ceremonie; rânduială, rit, datină; slujbă, oficiere, ritual; etichetă, pompă, gală, paradă; formă, protocol;

Master of Ceremonies a) maestru de ceremonii; b) persoană care animează o petrecere, conduce dansul etc.; c) (amer.) comper, prezentator (persoană care prezintă pe actori la festivaluri sau la spectacolele de revistă);

to stand upon ceremony a se formaliza, a fi ceremonios, a se ţine de etichetă;

without ceremony a) fără nazuri, fără (multă) vorbă, ce mai tura-vura; b) fără ceremonii / pretenţii / fasoane, simplu;

without further ceremony fără multă vorbă;

no ceremony! nu vă deranjaţi!

2. plural (înv.) semne rele, prevestiri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

When he came, my aunt performed the ceremony of introduction.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And I implore you not to look at me during the ceremony.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I treat you without ceremony, Mr. Knightley.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And without farther ceremony, she turned away and walked to the instrument.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

You know I never stand upon ceremony with such people.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She was as bright as possible—at least until after the ceremony.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After the ceremony was performed a large party assembled at my father’s, but it was agreed that Elizabeth and I should commence our journey by water, sleeping that night at Evian and continuing our voyage on the following day.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The maiden laughed, and said: “He does not stand much on ceremony, but I have already seen by his golden hair that he was no gardener’s boy,” and then she went and kissed him.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

When Mr. Bennet wrote again to his brother, therefore, he sent his permission for them to come; and it was settled, that as soon as the ceremony was over, they should proceed to Longbourn.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

If Edmund were but in orders! cried Julia, and running to where he stood with Miss Crawford and Fanny: My dear Edmund, if you were but in orders now, you might perform the ceremony directly.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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