epithalamion
Americannoun
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epithalamia
plural
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Etymology
Origin of epithalamion
1580–90; < Greek: nuptial, noun use of neuter of epithalámios nuptial. See epi-, thalamus
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While that celebratory epithalamion, “The Whitsun Weddings,” has been voted the most popular English poem of the previous half-century, I myself would have opted for “Aubade,” Larkin’s last and most terrifying meditation on death.
From Washington Post
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
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
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
Let festive epithalamia resound through these ancient halls!
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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
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