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English
Noun
epithalamy (plural epithalamies)
- Alternative form of epithalamium
a. 1631 (date written), J Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: M F for Iohn Marriot, , published 1633, →OCLC:He shew'd us how for sinnes we ought to sigh,
And how to sing Christs Epithalamy
References
“epithalamy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.