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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A song in celebration of a wedding; an epithalamium.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A song in celebration of a marriage.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a song in celebration of a marriage

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  2. pro-2 + Greek epithalamion, epithalamium; see epithalamium. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. prothalamium

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  1. song
  1. epithalamium
  1. vocal

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  • hernesheir 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". Sep 15, 2009

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