| 单词 | bridale |
| 释义 | bride-ale, bridale|ˈbraɪdˌeɪl|
[A conscious retention or restoration of the earlier analytical form of bridal n. [q.v.] in its early sense.]
1. A wedding-feast of the Old English type, an ale-drinking at a wedding.
1000–1500 [see bridal 1]. 1540Cranmer Bible Pref., Neither [is] weepinge convenient at a brideale. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) 150 In feasting [the husbandmen] doo exceed after their maner: especiallie at bridales. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 97 For recreation of the common people at Christmasse diners and brideales. 1621Ainsworth Annot. Gen. xxix. 22 A banquet named in Hebr. of drinking..Such we call a Bride-ale. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. lii. (1806) IV. 97 Wakes, church-ales, bride-ales, and other cheerful festivals of the common people. 1857Toulm. Smith Parish 503. 1864 Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 126 The doleful bridale of Dôle. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 151 Tostig's bride, whose bride-ale had been so cruelly interrupted.
2. ‘The warmed, sweetened, and spiced ale, presented to a wedding party on its return from Church’ (Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Yorkshire, 1863). |
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