black wedding

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A 19th century Ashkenazi ritual involving a wedding between two orphans that takes place in a graveyard, intended to assist in ending an epidemic.
    — On the eve of the wedding of Hekht's protagonist, Isaac Seltz, war breaks out, his future father-in-law dies, and an epidemic begins. Seltz would prefer to put off the wedding but the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter do not allow it: When Seltz heard it, he was horrified, but he did not speak out. The news of the black wedding already spread in the town. They were looking for beggars, but they had all fled from town.

词形变化

black weddings plural
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