| 单词 | bridal dinner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbridal dinner bridal dinner n. (a) a dinner held to celebrate a marriage, a wedding feast (now archaic); (b) (chiefly North American) a dinner given the evening before a wedding, typically for the bride and groom and their closest relatives and friends.The usual term for sense (b) is now rehearsal dinner: cf. rehearsal dinner n. at rehearsal n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > wedding feast marriage feast?1533 marriage dinner1552 bride-banquet1600 spouse-feast1601 marriage table1603 bridal dinnera1616 wedding-dinner1633 wedding-feast1633 wedding-supper1695 wedding-table1722 breakfast1847 wedding breakfast1850 wedding-banquet1855 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > dinner marriage dinner1552 bridal dinnera1616 wedding-dinner1633 a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. iii. 91 Gentlemen, forward to the bridall dinner. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xii. 338 You will wait on me to the church, and partake of the bridal dinner? 1913 Bellman 22 Nov. 666/2 On Friday evening Mr. and Mrs. Tucker gave the bridal dinner for Miss Tucker and Mr. Dent and the bridal party. 1984 J. H. Davis Kennedys ii. xxi. 216 By now Jack Bouvier was..awaiting an invitation to the bridal dinner... He was to give the bride away at the wedding ceremony the next day. 2014 ‘S. Merryvale’ Three Fractured Fairy Tales (e-book, accessed 4 Sept. 2018) 19 The Prince had been..hunting the wild stag, which would be the centerpiece of the Bridal Dinner following the Wedding. < as lemmas |
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