prothalamion , also: prothalamium

Every wolf in the world now howled a prothalamion outside the window as she freely gave the kiss she owed him.

Edmund Spenser celebrated the event in his poem, Prothalamion.

Prothalamion (unacc.

When the couple and the guests were seated, in the panthal (hall) the bride's old friends, young unmarried girls, gather around the couple singing a prothalamion.

He took the title from Edmund Spenser's Prothalamion: Sweete Themmes!

In the following year Spenser released "Prothalamion," a wedding song written for the daughters of a duke, allegedly in hopes to gain favor in the court.

V. Spenser, PROTHALAMION.

Many years after Leicester's death Spenser wistfully recalled this time in his Prothalamion, and in 1591 he remembered the late Earl with his poem The Ruins of Time.

Two of these poems ("Prothalamion" and "Epithalamion", amounting to 271 lines) had been written while Jones was living in London during the Blitz, for the marriage of Harman Grisewood to Margaret Bailey.