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Bride
"Bridal" (from Bride-ale), originally the wedding-feast itself, has grown into a general descriptive adjective, the bridal ceremony.
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bridale
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]. 1540 Cranmer Bible Pref., Neither [is] weepinge convenient ...
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guild-ale
† guild-ale Obs. [OE. *ᵹield-ealo; cf. bride-ale, bridal.] (See quots.)1240 Synod of Worcester xxxviii. in Du Cange s.v. Gild⁓ales, Ne intersint [clerici] ludis inhonestis, nec sustineant ludos fieri di Rege et Regina..nec Gildales inhonestas. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Gildale, a Compotation or Dr...
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Parish ale
The word "bridal" originally derives from bride-ale, the wedding feast organised to raise money for the couple.
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bridal
bridal, n. (a.) (ˈbraɪdəl) Forms: 1 br{iacu}d-ealo, -ealu, 2–6 brydale, bridale, 3, 7– bridal. Also (3 bridel), 3–4 (s.w.) brudale (y), 3–7 bridall, 4 bruydale (bruytale, bridhale), 4–5 (Kent) bredale, 5 bredeale, 6 brydall, brideall, brydeale, brideale, (7 bride hall). [OE. br{yacu}d-ealo (infl. -e...
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bride
▪ I. bride, n.1 (braɪd) Forms: 1 br{yacu}d, 2–4 (Kentish) brēd(e, 2–3 (s.w.) brude(ü), 3 brīd, 3–4 bryd, (4 bruyd), 4–6 bryde, 4– bride. [Common Teut.: OE. br{yacu}d str. fem. = OS. brûd (MLG. brûd, MDu. bruut -de, Du. bruid), OHG., MHG. brût (mod.G. braut), ON. br{uacu}ðr (Sw. Du. brud, Goth. brûþs...
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