September 18, 2007
Where does the term “honeymoon” come from?
Sent 12 times: According to World Wide Words, “honeymoon” first appeared in the 16th century in Richard Huloet’s “Abecedarium Anglico Latinum.” “Honeymoon, a term proverbially applied to such as be new married, which will not fall out at the first, but the one loveth the other at the beginning exceedingly, the likelihood of their exceeding love appearing to assuage, the which time the vulgar people call the honey moon.”…
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