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epithalamium
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tags: [music] [rare]
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Definition:A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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a lyre with sounding chords ringing out elegiac epithalamia to heaven,
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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