Synonyms:
bridal, espousal
Meaning: archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast
Usage examples
The First View: The Bridal Veil
The gipsy's eyes rested on the bridal party....
For my bridal clothes they made me black garments instead.
The bridal veil was composed of ineffable lace, made from an original design expressly for this bride.
But all the same, as he adored his son, he gave the gypsy his hand and led her to the great hall, where the bridal feast was spread.
In the basin of the Illilouette there are sixteen, in the Tenaya basin and its branches thirteen, in the Yosemite Creek basin fourteen, and in the Pohono or Bridal Veil one, making a grand total of one hundred and eleven lakes whose waters come to sing at Yosemite.
Another fine trip was up, bright and early, by Avalanche Canyon to Glacier Point, along the rugged south wall, tracing all its far outs and ins to the head of the Bridal Veil Fall, thence back home, bright and late, by a brushy, bouldery slope between Cathedral rocks and Cathedral spires and along the level Valley floor.