bridalty

Noun

bridalty (usually uncountable, plural bridalties)

1. (obsolete, usually) A wedding.
   • "Were she even that, and death the high priest who should solemnize our bridality, I would to my grave with rapture, if only her beauty shared it with me," returned the passionate Italian .1856, Emma Robinson, Caesar Borgia: An Historical Romance, page 49
   • The happy pair finally go on their honeymoon, start with the papa for Ostend, "whither, across the watery plain of ocean, the eternal breeze of Eden appeared to fill the snowy sails and propel the switft barque; and whither arrived he witnessed their Heaven-ordained bridality, and then with many a...1864 July 23, “Blackfriars' or, The Monks of Old”, in The Spectator, volume 37, page 855
2. (obsolete, usually) celebration of the wedding feast; wedding reception.
   • in honour of this bridaltee1633, Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment at Welbeck
   • […] bridality is to take place this evening […] in the Pineroom at Oglebay Park1940, Advertising Research Foundation, The Continuing Study of Newspaper Reading - Issues 16-24, page 6
3. (usually) Any of the various items or rituals that are part of a wedding celebration, especially those concerning the bride.
   • I came back from Windsor after dinner and escaped the bride, who is so tedious in her "bridality," and sought my own room in isolation; but there she is knocking at the door — happily she is not the younger generation, so her advent does not distress me to tragedy.1897 July 17, Mlle. Sans-Gêne, “Notes from my Diary”, in Country Life Illustrated, volume 2, page 56
   • Amusingly written letter about postponing a wedding ceremony at which the Dean was to officiate, discussing arrangements and referring to "toys & trinkets and bridalities of all sorts."1958, Walter Romeyn Benjamin, The Collector, page 22