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Iridal vs Bridal - What's the difference?

iridal | bridal |

As adjectives the difference between iridal and bridal

is that iridal is pertaining to a rainbow while bridal is of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.

As a noun bridal is

a wedding feast or festival; a wedding.

iridal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (rare) Pertaining to a rainbow.
  • Pertaining to the iris of the eye.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 44:
    • The iridal dark-brown of her serious eyes had the enigmatic opacity of an Oriental hypnotist's look (in a magazine's back-page advertisement) and seemed to be placed higher that usual so that between its lower rim and the moist lower lid a cradle crescent of white remained when she stared straight at you.

    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

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