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Marriage celebrations? Essence captured in a meal, cooked and given to one and all at the outset
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epithalamia
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See epithalamion
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n. (plural of epithalamium English)
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Epithalamium \Ep`i*tha*la"mi*um\, n.; pl. Epithalamiums , L. Epithalamia . [L., fr. Gr. ?, orig. an adj., nuptial; 'epi` upon, at + ? bride chamber.] A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom. The kind of poem which was called epithalamium ...
Usage examples of epithalamia.
While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline.