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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PROTHALAMION; PROTHALAMIUM

Pro `tha *la "mi *on, Pro `tha *la "mi *um, n. Etym: [NL. , fr. Gr.

 

Defn: A song in celebration of a marriage. Drayton.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

prothalamion

pro tha la mi on |ˌprōTHəˈlāmēən ˌproʊθəˈleɪmiən |(also prothalamium |-mēəm |) ▶noun ( pl. prothalamia |-mēə | ) literary a song or poem celebrating an upcoming wedding. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Prothalamion, the title of a poem by Spenser, on the pattern of epithalamium .