单词 | bride-cup |
释义 | bride-cupn. 1. A cup or bowl from which the bride and groom drink as part of a wedding ceremony. Now historical.Occasionally in figurative and Christian contexts; cf. bridegroom n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > drinking vessel > [noun] > wedding cup bride-cup1546 bride-bowl1605 bridal bowl1611 knitting-cupa1637 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > wedding festivities > [noun] > feast > cup handed round bride-cup1546 bride-bowl1605 bridal bowl1611 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. viii. sig. C The drynke of my bride cup I shulde haue forborne. a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 240 God doth call me most vnworthye among other, to drinke of the bridecup of his sonne. 1619 Deloney's Pleasant Hist. Iohn Winchcomb (rev. ed.) ii. sig. D3v Then was there a..Bride cup of siluer and gilt caried before her, wherein was a goodly branch of Rosemary gilded very faire, hung about with silken Ribonds of all colours. 1681 A. Bury Constant Communicant v. viii. 321 Nor ar we short of the Greeks in our Bridall ceremony: For our Bride-cake answereth their Bride-cup. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 339 The butler bore before her the bride cup, a great embossed silver bowl, one of the family reliques from the days of the hard drinkers. 1903 A. Andrewes Little Notes Shakespeare's Eng. vii. 64 When the marriage ceremony was over, the bride and bridegroom, and all the guests were expected to drink out of this bride-cup. 2006 N. Cawthorne Amorous Antics Old Eng. ii. 33 The bride-cup was carried before the couple so that they could steel themselves during the service. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time after marriage > [noun] > wedding night > cup prepared for couple on bride-cup1559 1559 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 199 They wher mared in Laten,..and after masse they had a bryd cupe and waffers and epocras and muskadyll plente to hevere body. 1631 B. Jonson New Inne v. iv. 29 Get our bed ready, Chamberlain, And Host, a Bride-cup; you haue rare conceipts, And good ingredients. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1546 |
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