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Birthday honours

plural noun

  1. (in Britain) honorary titles conferred on the official birthday of the sovereign


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And if he had lived it was my intention of including his name in the next Birthday Honours list.

Hes been quite awfully good to me, Im simply devoted to him, and I think we shall get a baronetcy at the next birthday honours.

Again he was disappointed, the list of birthday honours ignoring him completely.

She has a court of her own, too, with its ball-room presentations and its birthday honours.

The people who have received birthday honours are illuminating and decorating their houses.

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