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of or relating to a wedding

They always used the nuptial sheet, which revealed only the necessary parts of his wife's body.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

nuptial = relating to a wedding

Pedro quickly proposed they leave the consummation of the nuptials for another night.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

nuptials = things relating to a wedding

That night, realizing that he wouldn't be able to ignore his conjugal duty forever, Pedro knelt by the bed, on which the nuptial sheet was spread, and offered up this prayer: "Lord, this is not lust or lewdness but to make a child to serve you."
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate

nuptial = relating to a wedding

The nuptials of our hero, thus formally approved by his father, were celebrated in the most august of temples, the noble Minster of York.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
So if 'you have need of the pistol' of an honest man, prince, I am ready to fire half a dozen shots even before you rise from your nuptial couch!"
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
Let the banns be called and I will compose a nuptial song.'
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune them of their splendors; don't scrimp on the day when you beam.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The writer, I thought, once his experience is over, must lie back and let his mind celebrate its nuptials in darkness.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
They shall be married to-morrow; and I will bid the duke to the nuptial.
William Shakespeare -- As You Like It
Name your price, defer these nuptials for but a few days, and see whether those I speak of, shrink from the payment.
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
The day was fair, the wind favourable; all smiled on our nuptial embarkation.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
It wants to be awakened, roused to drunken nuptials with divine feeling.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
This was the great nuptial gift from the U.S. to the Congo—financing the construction of the Inga-Shaba.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
On and on went this nuptial dance.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
When I tell you that my nuptial mass is written .... wait till you hear the KYRIE....
Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
It was the peculiarity of the nuptials that they were all Bride.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
Afterward, I was never entirely sure why Will changed his mind about Alicia and Rupert's nuptials.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
This looks not like a nuptial.
William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
For once, her massive digestive mechanism failed to meet the heavy demands she had put upon it during the pre-nuptial banqueting.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
Margaret thought with dismay of her own nuptials—presumably under the management of Tibby.
E.M. Forster -- Howards End

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