arch. The room in which a wedding is celebrated; the nuptial apartment.
1579. J. Stubbes, Gaping Gulf, C iv. To be a doleful bryde in theyr bloody brydchambers.
1611. Bible, Matt. ix. 15. Can the children of the bride-chamber mourne, as long as the bridegrome is with them?
1871. Morley, Crit. Misc. (1886), I. 268. Topics eternally old, yet of eternal freshness, the perennial truisms of the grave and of the bride-chamber.
