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epithalamion

[ ep-uh-thuh-ley-mee-on, -uhn ]

noun

, plural ep·i·tha·la·mi·a [ep-, uh, -th, uh, -, ley, -mee-, uh].
  1. a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of epithalamion1

1580–90; < Greek: nuptial, noun use of neuter of epithalámios nuptial. See epi-, thalamus
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Example Sentences

Her first solo collection, Oneiromance (an epithalamion), appeared in 2008.

Among the minor poems of Spenser the most delightful were his Prothalamion and Epithalamion.

Spenser married a Cork-woman, and has enshrined her in the Epithalamion, the most beautiful love-poem in the English language.

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