prothalamium

[ proh-thuh-ley-mee-uhm ]

noun

, plural pro·tha·la·mi·a [proh-th, uh, -, ley, -mee-, uh].

1. prothalamion.

Example Sentences

The Thrissil and the Rois is a prothalamium in honour of James IV. and Margaret Tudor, in which the heraldic allegory is based on the familiar beast-parliament.

From Project Gutenberg

Given this pretentious orientation, reading Prothalamium is something like doing sums in your head: drop one character and carry two.

From Time Magazine Archive

Prothalamium is a novel for readers who have time to read a book twice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor before Ruth and young Kendrick, within a few hours of meeting, walked in a panic summer midnight to a mad prothalamium of crickets; lay together in cool damp grass and took counsel of a Debussy moon .

From Time Magazine Archive

It was also probably the weakest as a whole, though the poet had never done more poetical things than the passage beginning, "Cold and clear-cut face"; than the prothalamium, never to have its due sequel, "I have led her home"; than the incomparable and never-to-be-hackneyed "Come into the garden"; or than the best of all, "Oh! that 'twere possible."

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