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单词 chuppah
释义 chuppah|ˈkʊpɑː|
Also chupah, chuppa.
[ad. Heb. ḥuppāh cover, canopy.]
A canopy under which Jewish marriages are performed.
1876Geo. 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.1891M. 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.1909Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 4/5 At the West-end Synagogue..the bridegroom..awaited his bride under the floral ‘chupah’, or canopy.1957L. Stern Midas Touch ii. xiv. 113 Sigrid could not have been married by a rabbi under a chuppa.1962B.-Z. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln's Life iv. 79 We stood all together under the chuppah with the bride and bridegroom.
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