OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 32286

epithalamium

/ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
epitalamio
A song or poem celebrating a marriage.
He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kennel…
Softly she laughed and sighed, and swift her glances flew. She shook her heavy tresses, and their perfume filled the place; she struck her little sandalled foot upon the floor, and…
Phrases