Archaic a wedding
Origin of bridal
Middle English bridale from Old English bryd ealu, bride ale, marriage feast from bryd, bride + ealu, ale- of a bride
- of a wedding
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bridal
noun
A marriage ceremony; a wedding.
adjective
- Of or relating to a bride or a marriage ceremony; nuptial.
- Designed for a bride or a newly married couple: a bridal shop; the hotel's bridal suite.
Origin of bridal
Middle English bridale wedding, wedding feast from Old English brédealo bréd bride ; see bride . ealu ale ; see ale .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
Origin
Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive use was strengthened by association with bride + -al.
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Sentence Examples
- She receives a crown as a bridal gift, which is placed amongst the stars, while she herself is honoured as a goddess (Ovid, Metam.
- Boys are circumcised at the age of five or six years, when the boy is paraded, generally with a bridal procession, on a gaily caparisoned horse and dressed in womans clothes.
- The Bridal Veil Fall, goo ft.
- In the Daedala, as the festival was called at Plataea, an effigy was made from an oak-tree, dressed in bridal attire, and carried in a cart with a woman who acted as bridesmaid.
- At this period he also assumes a bridal dress, painted with blue and red tints.
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