epithalamium
Americannoun
plural
epithalamiums, epithalamianoun
Other Word Forms
- epithalamic adjective
Etymology
Origin of epithalamium
C17: from Latin, from Greek epithalamion marriage song, from thalamos bridal chamber
Example Sentences
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In fact, there’s a special term for a wedding poem: epithalamium.
From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2018
"Bees' Nests", hitchhiking "for hours, pole-axed by Marzine / on sick-making bends", an ancestor among the translators of the King James Bible, Geordie slang, birthday greetings and an epithalamium: this is a collection of range and richness.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2013
If Shikasta was an admonition, its successor is an epithalamium.
From Time Magazine Archive
Included is a series of love poems, a kind of epithalamium to his young wife, who was his student at Bennington.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here rang out the joyous conversation, interspersed with the Latin epithalamium of some impromptu poet, or the fescennine verses of a German minnesinger.
From Peter the Priest by Jókai, Mór
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