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bride-ales

bride-ales is the plural of bride-ale.

Meaning of bride-ale

Noun

bride-ale (plural bride-ales)

  1. (Northern England, archaic) A rustic wedding feast
    • here was a bride-ale broke In the nick1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett...
    Synonyms:
    bridal
  2. (Northern England) The warmed, sweetened, and spiced ale presented to a wedding party on its return from church.

Questions about bride-ales

What is bride-ales the plural of?
Bride-ales is the plural of bride-ale.

Words near bride-ales in the dictionary

  1. bride's flower
  2. bride's flowers
  3. bride's maid
  4. bride's maids
  5. bride-ale
  6. bride-ales
  7. bride-cake
  8. bride-cakes
  9. bride-gift
  10. bride-gifts
  11. bride-price

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