spousals

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He maketh revels and feasts and spousals, and giveth many good gifts to friends and guests, and comforteth and gladdeth his guests with songs and pipes and other minstrelsy of music.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

There reigned throughout, an order and purity, an orderly disposition, as if by way of making ready for some gracious spousals.

From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Pater, Walter

What deed of outrage, Phoebus, hast thou done   This day, forgetful of that day whereon   To godlike Peleus' spousals gathered all   The Immortals?

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders

Let dull Octavia Survive, to mourn him dead: My nobler fate Shall knit our spousals with a tie, too strong For Roman laws to break.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

The fame of this extraordinary conjunction spread all over the county; and, on the day appointed for their spousals, the church was surrounded by an inconceivable multitude.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)