prothalamium
Americannoun
plural
prothalamiaExample Sentences
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The Thrissil and the Rois is a prothalamium in honour of James IV. and Margaret Tudor, in which the heraldic allegory is based on the familiar beast-parliament.
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Prothalamium is a novel for readers who have time to read a book twice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Given this pretentious orientation, reading Prothalamium is something like doing sums in your head: drop one character and carry two.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was also probably the weakest as a whole, though the poet had never done more poetical things than the passage beginning, "Cold and clear-cut face"; than the prothalamium, never to have its due sequel, "I have led her home"; than the incomparable and never-to-be-hackneyed "Come into the garden"; or than the best of all, "Oh! that 'twere possible."
From Project Gutenberg
The word prothalamium is from Gr. pro, for, and thalamos, a bride-chamber, and would more properly be applied to a marriage-song than to "a spousall verse."
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