epithalamion
noun
a song or poem in honor of a bride and bridegroom.
epithalamia
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pluralof epithalamion.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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pluralof epithalamium.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Other notable epithalamia, from Edmund Spenser to E. E. Cummings , are just too long and obtuse to do the trick.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2018
This genre reaches all the way back to ancient Greece, but the most famous epithalamia do not work well at modern weddings.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2018
Outside the leaves rustled, the birds called and the crickets sang their unending epithalamia of summer nights, and on this tone-background the melody rose tenderly and lingeringly like a haunting perfume of pressed flowers.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline."
From Ponkapog Papers by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions,—such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
