From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.
Meanings
(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber
From Middle English bridale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding ale; wedding feast”). The attributive usage was strengthened by association with bride + -al.
Meanings
(archaic) A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
Thus, in the dead time of the night before her bridal, Edith Granger wrestled with her unquiet spirit, tearless, friendless, silent, proud, and uncomplaining. 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
[…] the crowne, which Ariadne wore / Upon her yvory forehead, that same day / That Theseus her unto his bridal bore […] 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
A Nimph is marryed to a Fay,
Great preparations for the Day,
All Rites of Nuptials they recite you,
To the Brydall and inuite you. 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, Lately diſcouered, by a New Way over Parnassvs, London: Thomas Harper, page 67:
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Translations (6)
de Hochzeit (wedding) · ro nuntă (wedding) · he כְּלוּלוֹת (wedding) · bg сватба (wedding) · fi häät (wedding) · hy հարսանիք (wedding)