You learn something new every day

[gwynhefar]

Words that showed up in my class reading tonight with which I was not familiar and their definitions:

epithalamium: a song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom.

sibyl: a female prophet or fortune-teller.

boscage: a growth of trees or shrubs; a thicket.

quête: the traditional act of begging food or alms to the accompaniment of a folk song, esp. as part of a folk-play.

hockcart: the cart or wagon which carried home the last load of the harvest.

storial: of or pertaining to the nature of history. (Obs.)

bride-ale: A wedding-feast of the Old English type; an ale-drinking at a wedding.

Comments

[corivax.livejournal.com]

Cool! A lot of these were new to me, too. I knew sibyl and boscage, though. :)

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

I was aware of the association of the name Sibyl with fortune-tellers, but didn't realise it was actually a generic term until I looked it up. Never heard of the others though.