huppah

American  

[khoop-uh, khoop-ah, hoop-uh] / ˈxʊp ə, ˈxʊp ɑ, ˈhʊp ə /

Or chuppah

noun

1. a canopy under which the Jewish marriage ceremony is performed.

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huppah British  

/ ˈhʊpə /

noun

1. a variant spelling of chuppah

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Example Sentences

When Ava Friedmann and Michael Henein were married, they used a tablecloth from Ms. Friedmann’s grandmother as a huppah, or ritual canopy held above the couple in a Jewish wedding.

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Though the ceremony incorporated Jewish traditions, the couple did not have a free-standing huppah.

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“We felt it would be hubristic to design a huppah, itself a piece of architecture,” within the building, Mr. Esocoff said.

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This setup, he explained, “met the, albeit loosened, requirements of a huppah for a Jewish wedding, and highlighted our parents, who are pillars in our lives.”

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Waiting at a huppah draped with flowing white fabric was their officiant, Lisa Edwards, rabbi emerita at the Beth Chayim Chadashim synagogue in Los Angeles.

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