Bridal
['braɪd(ə)l] or ['braɪdl]
Definition
(noun.) archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast.
(adj.) of or pertaining to a bride; 'bridal gown' .
(adj.) of or relating to a wedding; 'bridal procession'; 'nuptial day'; 'spousal rites'; 'wedding cake'; 'marriage vows' .
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Definition
(n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Nuptial, connubial, hymeneal, matrimonial, conjugal.
n. Marriage, wedding, nuptials, nuptial festival.
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Definition
n. a marriage feast: a wedding.—adj. belonging to a bride or a wedding: nuptial.
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Examples
- Your god rules at the bridal of kings; look at your royal dynasties! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There was something almost bridal in his own aspect: his large white gardenia had a symbolic air that struck Lily as a good omen. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Miss Havisham had settled down, I hardly knew how, upon the floor, among the faded bridal relics with which it was strewn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was like pushing the chair itself back into the past, when we began the old slow circuit round about the ashes of the bridal feast. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- There was no bridal procession, but a sudden silence fell upon the room as Mr. March and the young couple took their places under the green arch. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- So she sat, corpse-like, as we played at cards; the frillings and trimmings on her bridal dress, looking like earthy paper. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- All eyes turned toward the bridal party, and a murmur of amazement went through the throng, for neither bride nor groom removed their masks. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Weave on, swift shuttle of the Lord, Beneath the deep so far, The bridal robe of Earth’s accord, The funeral shroud of war! Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Such was the bridal hour of Genius and Humanity. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was no putting off the day that advanced--the bridal day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Havisham's gray hair was all adrift upon the ground, among the other bridal wrecks, and was a miserable sight to see. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Every where I turn I see the same figure--her bloodless arms and relaxed form flung by the murderer on its bridal bier. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
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