(n.) Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
(n.) A nuptial festival or ceremony; a marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dallas nurse Amber Vinson was diagnosed with Ebola days after visiting Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal store in Akron in October.
(2) Geologists sort the waterfalls into two types: wedding-cake falls, which descend in multiple tiers, and bridal-veil falls, that plunge over a ledge into a pool.
(3) Sunday clothes and paperwork, bridal chests, wedding dresses and embroidered tablecloths, documents, maps and harvest records, china, grains, seeds, cured meats, cheeses and preserves … these were the treasures those who lived in Alpine villages such as Chamonix in the early 1800s would do anything to protect.
(4) There's a bridal gown for three- to six-year-olds, for instance, complete with a fake corsage.
(5) It's not like we are all going to be marching into Catholic churches in bridal dresses, but you just want to have the option.
(6) Whether it was because the walks gave mixed cultural signals, or my upbringing left me in ignorance of their significance, I don’t know, but they seemed part bridal, with the girls in their snowy dresses, part May queen festival and part brass band competition.
(7) She’d started work two hours early, at 3am, so she could leave in time to help the bridal party with their hair and nails before washing her car, attaching white ribbons to the bonnet and driving people to the ceremony.
(8) I’m only eating grapefruit and steam until my wedding.” “I enrolled my whole wedding party in bridal boot camp.” “I bought my dress in a size four even though I’m a size six.” And that’s totally fine, of course, if that’s your priority.
(9) 8 The Sensual World Celtic influences meet Balkan soundscapes on The Sensual World, which employs Bulgarian folk singers and – on this title track – a Macedonian bridal dance played on Uilleann pipes.
(10) Most of all, it knows that happy endings come in all guises, not just with a bridal veil.
(11) She references the recent study as she sits with me last Saturday afternoon, taking a few minutes away from a bridal shower for her granddaughter to talk about the spill and the proposed pipeline.
(12) Commercially available bridal veil nylon (BVN) in 2.0-3,0-, and 4.0-mm hexagonal mesh is being used as a sterile dressing for burns and many surgical problems.
(13) Operators of a north-east Ohio bridal shop linked to an Ebola survivor say the store is closing because it lost significant business and has been stigmatized.
(14) As she fretted over her bridal veil, Nancy told Diana, as she always had, "Nobody will be looking at you".
(15) Health officials said Vinson went to a bridal shop in Akron on Saturday, but otherwise remained at home with her family.
(16) Why I can’t wait to be a fat bride | Lindy West Read more It’s not that I’d ever particularly yearned for a grand gesture – the relationship I cherish lives in our tiny private moments (and, as I’d later discover at my bridal shower, I’m surprisingly uncomfortable being the object of public sincerity) – but the older I get and the longer I live in a fat body, the harder it is to depoliticise even simple acts.
(17) Traditional or spiritual motivations aside, the procedure is deemed a practical necessity for many parents – without it they cannot get a high bridal price when their daughter is married – if she can get a husband at all.
(18) My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding was a festival of class contempt; almost all bridal reality TV shows emphasise the greed, the covetousness, the shrill vulgarity of the female protagonist with all eyes upon her, while the real princess bride – Catherine Middleton for example – escapes any censure.
(19) As a finalist in the floristry category, Richards will spend two days in a packed exhibition hall, alongside 18 other young hopefuls from all over the world, completing tasks that could include anything from making a bridal bouquet to embellishing an item of clothing using petals and leaves.
(20) The bride's sisters made up the bridal party, and stepdad Bruce Jenner walked her down the aisle, the story said.
Iridal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris or rainbow; prismatic; as, the iridal colors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Changes in pupil size indicated a substantial cholinergic effect on the iridal sphincter musculature.
(2) Pigmentations are significantly related to the colour of the iris (visible in 8% of blue irides, against in 40% of brown).
(3) In subjects with light or hazel irides, phenylephrine caused maximal dilatation in 60 to 75 min, mean values being 5.6 mm with 1 drop of 2%, 6.0 mm with 2 drops of 2.5%, and 7.1 mm with 1 drop of 10%.
(4) The effect of desipramine, clonidine, phentolamine, phenoxybenzamine and GD131 on uptake of [(3)H]-NA in isolated irides was determined.3.
(5) The effect in the eye was small at 2 minutes, but at 10 minutes local blood flows in the choroid and the ciliary body were decreased by 50% and the iridal blood flow by 30%.
(6) Furthermore, an uneven distribution of fluorescent nerve fibers was observed within individual irides.
(7) 5HT-positive fibers also penetrated into the irides forming dense networks in the walls of blood vessels and elsewhere in the irides.
(8) In the patients with other types of iridal disorder the endothelial cells were normal in form.
(9) Patients with darker, thicker irides are more prone to have subacute angle-closure glaucoma, which requires gonioscopy and the recognition of subtle details that may be difficult to interpret.
(10) Dogs affected with chronic superficial keratitis (CSK) and clinically normal dogs were tested for cellular hypersensitivity, using the leukocyte migration-inhibition (LMI) technique to 3 ocular antigens (Staphylococcus aureus and corneal and iridal proteins).
(11) The ocular examination reveals a small anterior chamber, sectorial iridic atrophies, a mydriatic pupil, the camerular angle closed.
(12) Surprisingly, a large variation in the amount of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-positive nerves was seen among irides.
(13) These lesions were most often found in blue irides at the 12 o'clock region.
(14) Isolated rat irides were incubated with [(3)H]-noradrenaline [(3)H-NA] (10(-7)M), superfused with buffer and then stimulated by an electrical field.
(15) At fluorescein angiography (FAG) at a mean of 8 months post-operatively, 9 showed leaking from the iridal vessels, and 3 were normal: Three cases were excluded because of factors affecting the iris FAG.
(16) Eleven pigmented rabbit irides were irradiated with the argon laser and were examined electron-microscopically at several intervals between 15 minutes and 256 days after exposure.
(17) A Thy-1-positive fibre plexus reappeared in intraocular iris transplants after 4 weeks, strongly indicating that Thy-1-immunoreactive fibres in adult mouse irides are associated with the nerve fibres and not with their supportive tissue.
(18) These results indicate that S-Ag and its mRNA accumulate in the irides of some uveitic patients.
(19) Irides of neonates showed scattered, smooth fibres in a sparse plexus, without visible axon bundles.
(20) Obliteration of the ciliary cleft by diffuse iridal melanoma (38 eyes), or other neoplasms (14 eyes), or by the presence of idiopathic lymphocytic-plasmacytic anterior uveitis (53 eyes) were the most frequent lesions likely to explain the development of glaucoma.