Definitions
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- noun A song in celebration of a wedding; an epithalamium.
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- noun A song in celebration of a marriage.
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- noun A
song orpoem in honour of abride andbridegroom about to bemarried
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- noun a song in celebration of a marriage
Etymologies
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[pro– + Greek epithalamion, epithalamium; see epithalamium.]
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He struck a formal pose with the shotgun cradled in his arms and commenced a rawk-voiced prothalamion.
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Term coined by Edmund Spenser for the title of his poem celebrating the weddings of Katherine and Elizabeth Somerset in 1596. It is based upon epithalamion, this term meaning "before the bridal chamber".
September 16, 2009