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How did the term Honeymoon originate?

That’s a really good question! I’m due to be going on ours in just over a month’s time, and it hadn’t crossed my mind till now!

I looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary which is good on sources and noting when words first came into use. It states:

‘‘The first month after marriage, when there is nothing but tenderness and pleasure’ (Johnson); originally having no reference to the period of a month, but comparing the mutual affection of newly-married persons to the changing moon which is no sooner full than it begins to wane; now, usually, the holiday spent together by a newly-married couple, before settling down at home.’

The first date it can find for honeymoon being used is 1546.

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