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.
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Epithalamium
//ɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm//
Synonyms for "epithalamium" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
11 translations across 10 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- epitalami noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Finnish
2 entries- häälaulu noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
- hääruno noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
French
1 entries- épithalame noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Italian
1 entries- epitalamio noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Latin
1 entries- epithalamium noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Polish
1 entries- epitalamium noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Portuguese
1 entries- epitalâmio noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Romanian
1 entries- epitalam noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Russian
1 entries- эпиталама noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Spanish
1 entries- epitalamio noun (song or poem celebrating a marriage)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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 kenneled people.
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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.
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