bride-ale
nounEtymology From Middle English brydale, from Old English brȳdealo (“wedding feast”), equivalent to bride + ale.
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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, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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Northern England The warmed, sweetened, and spiced ale presented to a wedding party on its return from church.