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huppah
[ khoop-uh, khoop-ah, hoop-uh ]
noun
- a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed.
huppah
/ ˈhʊpə /
noun
- a variant spelling of chuppah
Example Sentences
When Ava Friedmann and Michael Henein were married, they used a tablecloth from Ms. Friedmann’s grandmother as a huppah, or ritual canopy held above the couple in a Jewish wedding.
Though the ceremony incorporated Jewish traditions, the couple did not have a free-standing huppah.
“We felt it would be hubristic to design a huppah, itself a piece of architecture,” within the building, Mr. Esocoff said.
This setup, he explained, “met the, albeit loosened, requirements of a huppah for a Jewish wedding, and highlighted our parents, who are pillars in our lives.”
Waiting at a huppah draped with flowing white fabric was their officiant, Lisa Edwards, rabbi emerita at the Beth Chayim Chadashim synagogue in Los Angeles.
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