chuppah
(ˈkʊpɑː)
Also chupah, chuppa.
[ad. Heb. ḥuppāh cover, canopy.]
A canopy under which Jewish marriages are performed.
| 1876 Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. viii. lxvi. 304 Thirty-four years ago I put the ring on her finger under the Chuppa, and we were made one. 1891 M. Friedländer Jewish Relig. ii. 485 Bride and bridegroom..during the ceremony stand under a canopy... The canopy or chuppah represents symbolically the future home of the married couple. 1909 Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 4/5 At the West-end Synagogue..the bridegroom..awaited his bride under the floral ‘chupah’, or canopy. 1957 L. Stern Midas Touch ii. xiv. 113 Sigrid could not have been married by a rabbi under a chuppa. 1962 B.-Z. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln's Life iv. 79 We stood all together under the chuppah with the bride and bridegroom. |