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Definition of Prothalamion
1. Noun. A song in celebration of a marriage.
Definition of Prothalamion
1. n. A song in celebration of a marriage.
Definition of Prothalamion
1. Noun. A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prothalamion
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Prothalamion
Literary usage of Prothalamion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"As the birds do love the spring, Or the bees their careful king: Then in requite,
sweet virgin, love me 1 72 EDMUND SPENSER [1552-1599] prothalamion CALM ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"... where the solution to the mystery which Nature proposes, differs perhaps but
little after all from that of ages maturer in science. prothalamion; OR ..."
3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... Or hope to gaine, himselfe will one daie crie, That curse God send unto mine
enemie! meeke, 20 prothalamion » (1596) Calm was the day, and through the ..."
4. English Lyric Poetry, 1500-1700 by Frederic Ives Carpenter (1897)
"prothalamion. /"*ALM was the day, and through the trembling air ^ Sweet-breathing
Zephyrus did softly play A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot ..."
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