epithalamium
Americannoun
PLURAL
epithalamiums, epithalamianoun
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- epithalamic adjective
Etymology
Origin of epithalamium
C17: from Latin, from Greek epithalamion marriage song, from thalamos bridal chamber
Example Sentences
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The New Yorker declared that Mr. Greenberg was to wedding cakes “what Henry Purcell was to wedding music or Edmund Spenser to the epithalamium” — that is, a wedding song or poem.
From New York Times
In fact, there’s a special term for a wedding poem: epithalamium.
From Washington Post
Was it an epithalamium praising a forthcoming marriage or a seduction lyric drawing on the classic argument of “carpe diem”— seize the day, live for the moment?
From Washington Post
She wrote, it is believed, at least nine books of odes, together with epithalamia, epigrams, elegies, and monodies.
From Project Gutenberg
By the ablest interpreters and critics of Holy Scripture, the Song of Solomon has generally been regarded as an epithalamium, or nuptial canticle.
From Project Gutenberg
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