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"a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor"nouna formal event performed on a special occasion
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"the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine" "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball" "he disposed of it without ceremony"nounany activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal waytype of:
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"an inaugural ceremony"nounthe proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasiontype of:
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wedding funeral opening affair exercise activity occasion function presentation dedication pageant formality circumstance formalities initiation installation ceremonial purification induction groundbreaking commemoration nuptials observance pageantry ceremonious potlatch purgation lustrum ceremonial occasion social function social occasion fire walking maundy memorialisation memorialization military ceremony obsequy wedding ceremony hymeneals chanoyu tea ceremony religious ceremony groundbreaking ceremony religious ritual