nuptial mass
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Well-to-do medieval couples, having exchanged vows in the porch, proceeded into church for a nuptial mass.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 6, 2010
A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ireland, officiated at the high nuptial mass in Baltimore Cathedral.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the ceremony has been a nuptial mass, in the Catholic or High Church ritual, the bridal party have—presumably—observed the fast, before the mass; therefore, the "breakfast" is really a breakfast.
From Etiquette by Morton, Agnes H.
Under these circumstances it was not possible to have a nuptial mass.
From The Garden of Allah by Hichens, Robert Smythe
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