prothalamium
/ˌprəʊθəˈleɪmɪəm
/noun (plural prothalamia /ˌprəʊθəˈleɪmɪə/) literary
A song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding.John Ashbery, in ‘A Blessing in Disguise,’ has written a fast, sure prothalamion for the sometime wedding of oneself to the free friend, to poetry.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Prothalamion, the title of a poem by Spenser, on the pattern of epithalamium.
Rhymes
- on the case
- on the cheap
- on the chopping block
- on the couch
- on the credit side
- on the crest of a wave
- on the decrease
- on the defensive
- on the door
- on the dot
- on the downgrade
- on the drawing board
- on the edge of one's seat
- on the face of it
- on the fiddle
- on-the-field
- on the flat
- on the fly
- on the front foot
- on the game
- on the go
- on the grog
- on the ground
- on the hip
- on the home front