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Bridal vs Spousal - What's the difference?

bridal | spousal |

As nouns the difference between bridal and spousal

is that bridal is a wedding feast or festival; a wedding while spousal is (obsolete|chiefly|in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal.

As adjectives the difference between bridal and spousal

is that bridal is of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial while spousal is of or relating to marriage.

bridal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.10:
    • the crowne, which Ariadne wore / Upon her yvory forehead, that same day / That Theseus her unto his bridal bore […].

    Related terms

    * bride

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.
    • bridal''' ornaments; a '''bridal''' outfit; a '''bridal chamber

    Derived terms

    * bridal couple

    Anagrams

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    spousal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of or relating to marriage
  • of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
  • * 1592: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
    • There we shall consummate our spousal rites.

    Derived terms

    * spousal abuse * spousal support

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, chiefly, in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal
  • * Dryden
    • The spousals of Hippolita.
  • * Chaucer
    • Boweth your head under that blissful yoke Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.
  • * Emerson
    • The spousals of the newborn year.
    (Webster 1913)