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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.


huppah British  
/ ˈhʊpə /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of chuppah

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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.

From New York Times May 6, 2022

At the end of the ceremony, a huppah arranged by the couple was brought out.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2022

“Full speed ahead,” Ms. Mandel recalled her father saying before they were wed that rainy evening under a huppah he had built.

From New York Times Nov. 5, 2021

Ms. Knight, in a strapless white wedding gown, walked with Kari down the restaurant’s fairy-lit aisle to where Mr. Spilkowitz, in a dark suit, waited under a huppah draped in lavender and purple flowers.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2021

They were married under a huppah, a wedding canopy.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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