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Answer for the clue "Bridal-path destination ", 5 letters:
altar

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES altar boy COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ Within a dozen yards, I came to a set of iron gates closing off the steps east of the high altar . ▪ The high Baroque altar with its twisted columns in varied marbles ...

Usage examples of altar.

He justly observes, that in the recent changes, both religions had been alternately disgraced by the seeming acquisition of worthless proselytes, of those votaries of the reigning purple, who could pass, without a reason, and without a blush, from the church to the temple, and from the altars of Jupiter to the sacred table of the Christians.

Standing naked before the horned altar, Aganippe struggled to stay awake, murmuring prayers she had recited since girlhood, while they painted her body with yellow ochre-- the earth color.

I began by showing him that Leticia Nazareno owed us for an amount of taffeta twice the nautical distance to Santa Maria del Altar, that is, one hundred ninety leagues, and he said aha as if to himself, and I ended up by showing him that the total debt with the special discount for your excellency was equal to six times the grand prize in the lottery for ten years, and he said aha again and only then did he look at me directly without his glasses and I could see that his eyes were timid and indulgent, and only then did he tell me with a strange voice of harmony that our reasons were clear and just, to each his own, he said, have them send the bill to the government.

Then, closing his right hand around its hilt, he turned to salute each of the four airts, beginning with the east, where the altar lay.

Before this fire, the only crypt whose existence was known of, was a small chamber under the platform of the high altar, no wider than the central aisle of the choir, and only equal to a bay and a half of that aisle in length.

At the east end of the south aisle of the choir stood the altar of All Saints, founded by Bowet.

I watched Alake take her place before her altar, which she had set up in the empty cargo hold on deck two.

Councillor Albedo, pacing back and forth in front of the altar once again.

Here Councillor Albedo quit pacing and stood directly in front of the altar.

I drew her gently into a closet where a soft divan formed a suitable altar for the completion of an amorous sacrifice.

God is he, for still The great Gods wander on our mortal ways, And watch their altars upon mead or hill And taste our sacrifice, and hear our lays, And now, perchance, will heed if any prays, And now will vex us with unkind control, But anywise must man live out his days, For Fate hath given him an enduring soul.

An apocryphal story repeated long after has Talleyrand at the Champ de Mars imploring Lafayette, who joined him at the altar, not to make him laugh.

He finished the repairs to the south arcading and south aisle begun by Abbot Hugh, built three altars, and vaulted the aisle.

In the very center is the ashram, with our altar, and I will tell more about that later.

The child, with face ashy white and eyes glistening, her spirit borne aloft by the fervent strains of the litanies, was gazing at the altar, where in imagination she could see the roses multiplying and falling in cascades.