chuppahn.
/ˈkʊpɑː/ A canopy under which Jewish marriages are performed.
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1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda 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. 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. Abrahams tr. Glückel of Hameln Life iv. 79 We stood all together under the chuppah with the bride and bridegroom.
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