hymeneals

English

Noun

hymeneals

1. plural of hymeneal

Noun

hymeneals pl (plural only)

1. Nuptials.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 165:

     “Indeed she will have to do without me,” he added, thinking rather of his studies in Carrara, than of his Barchester hymeneals.

   • 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2006 Gutenberg eBook Edition:

     To this he wrote an answer as short, expressing his ardent wishes that those winter hymeneals might produce nothing but happiness, and saying that he would not be in town many days before he knocked at the door of No. 52, Grosvenor Place.