| 释义 |
ˈbride-cup arch. or Obs.
[f. bride- = wedding.]
a. A cup or bowl handed round at a wedding.
b. A cup of spiced ingredients prepared at night for the ‘bride-couple’. Also fig.
1554Philpot Exam. & Writ. 241 God doth call me (most unworthy) to drink of the Bride-cup of his Son. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 15 The drynke of my bride cup I should haue forborne. 1630B. Jonson New Inn. v. i, Get our bed ready, chamberlain, And, host, a bride-cup; you have rare conceits, And good ingredients. 1633Jack of Newbery in Laneham's Let. (1871) 20 There was a fair bride-cup of silver gilt carried before her, wherein was a goodly branch of rosemary. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall II. 323 The butler bore before her the bride-cup. |