prothalamium


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prothalamium /ˌprəʊθəˈleɪmɪəm/
noun (pl. prothalamia /-mɪə/) literary a song or poem celebrating a forthcoming wedding.
– origin C16: from Prothalamion, the title of a poem by Spenser, on the pattern of epithalamium.
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