bridal

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Somewhere in this troublesome world the bridal is always matched by the burial, the festal song by the funeral dirge.

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  1. noun A marriage ceremony; a wedding.
  2. adjective Of or relating to a bride or a marriage ceremony; nuptial.
  3. adjective Designed for a bride or a newly married couple: a bridal shop; the hotel's bridal suite.

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  1. Middle English bridale, wedding, wedding feast, from Old English brȳdealo : brȳd, bride; see bride + ealu, ale; see ale.

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  1. Formerly also bridall; properly, as in early modern English, bridale, bride-ale, from Middle English bridale, brudale, from Anglo-Saxon bry¯dealo (also bry¯;d-ealoth, dative), bridal, literally bride-ale, i. e., bride-feast, from bry¯d, bride, + ealo (genitive and dative ealoth), ale, in comp. a feast: see ale. Cf. church-ale, clerk-ale, etc. In modern use the terminal element has been assimilated to the suffix -al, and the word accordingly used also as an adjective, like nuptial, etc.
 

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/ˈbraɪdəl/
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