epithalamium

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A song or poem celebrating a marriage.

   “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 hummed a snatch of some old Greek epithalamium.”

2. isim A song in praise of the bride or bridegroom

   “The Caves of Ajanta, the medieval Courts of Love, the epithalamia of the erotic poets [...] all testify to the glorification of manhood, the supremacy of the sex motif.”