| 单词 | bridal house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbridal house bridal house n. now archaic (originally) a place in which a wedding or wedding reception is held; (later usually) a house in which a newly married couple live or stay after their wedding.Cf. bridehouse n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > place where wedding celebrated bridal house1440 wedding-housec1440 bridehouse1550 bride-barn1652 marriage hall1924 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 50 Brydale howse, nuptorium. c1565 ‘T. C.’ tr. G. Boccaccio Galesus Cymon & Iphigenia sig. Cviii As agreement was before, the Brydale house do clyme. They scale the walles..then enter they with force. 1699 tr. Seneca in J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xi. 314 Your Mother did not at the Wedding wait, Nor you into your Chamber introduce, Nor with her Hand the bridal House adorn'd. 1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. ix. 265 The abode of sorrow, guilt, and misery, the bridal house, whither, after three weeks marriage, I conduct my Althea. 1897 Rep. Ethnograph. Surv. United Kingdom 479 The minister must always be in the bridal house before the bridegroom enters. 1913 R. Frost Boy's Will (1915) 16 But whether or not a man was asked To mar the love of two By harboring woe in the bridal house, The bridegroom wished he knew. 2002 S. Ṿail India's Jewish Heritage 63 The groom and the other young men clap and sing before her as she is taken to the bridal house. < as lemmas |
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