Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A public hall for celebrating marriages.
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Examples
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When a woman refuses nothing to one whom she does not really love, shadows are already falling on the bride-house.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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When a woman refuses nothing to one whom she does not really love, shadows are already falling on the bride-house.
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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Athwart the incestuous prisoner's bride-house bars;
Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Round the grave her bride-house, hewn for endless habitation,
Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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