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diamond jubilee

British  

noun

  1. the celebration of a 60th, or occasionally 75th, anniversary

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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For her diamond jubilee, the 83-year-old Tharp has remounted a major Beethoven work, “Diabelli,” from 1998, and created a major new Glass dance, “Slacktide,” of which UC Santa Barbara was a co-commissioner.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

In The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit, the team helped with an 18th-Century bracket clock and a piece made for Charles's great-great-great grandmother's diamond jubilee in 1897 by Scottish ceramics maker Wemyss Ware.

From BBC Oct. 27, 2022

She held huge parties in 2002, 2006 and 2012 to celebrate her golden jubilee, her 80th birthday and her diamond jubilee.

From New York Times Sep. 8, 2022

An 8-metre steel crown celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s diamond jubilee sits on a roundabout in the town.

From Reuters Dec. 31, 2020

It would have been a splendid way of commemorating the "diamond jubilee" if a scouring had been organised in 1897.

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

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