bride-ale

English

Noun

bride-ale (plural bride-ales)

(archaic) A rustic wedding feast; a bridal.
- 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Ben 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):
  here was a bride-ale broke In the nick

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bride-ale in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

barleeid, belaired, rebailed, rideable

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