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A honeymoon
is the traditional holiday taken by newlyweds (or
between two people in an early harmonious period in
a relationship) to celebrate their marriage in intimacy
and seclusion. Today, honeymoons by Westerners are
sometimes celebrated somewhere exotic or otherwise
considered special and romantic.
History of Honeymooon:
Possibly the earliest
reference to
a honeymoon is in Deuteronomy 24:5
“When a man is newly wed, he need not go out
on a military expedition, nor shall any public duty
be imposed on him. He shall be exempt for one year
for the sake of his family, to bring joy to the wife
he has married.”
In Western culture, the custom of a newlywed couple
going on a holiday together originated in early 19th
century Great Britain. Upper-class couples would take
a "bridal tour", sometimes accompanied by
friends or family, to visit relatives that had not
been able to attend the wedding. The practice soon
spread to the European continent and was known as
voyage à la façon anglaise (English-style
voyage) in France from the 1820s on.
Honeymoons in the modern
sense (i.e. a pure holiday voyage
undertaken by the married couple) became widespread
during the Belle Époque, as one of the first
instances of modern mass tourism. This came about
in spite of initial disapproval by contemporary medical
opinion (which worried about women's frail health)
and by savoir vivre guidebooks (which deplored the
public attention drawn to what was assumed to be the
wife's sexual initiation). The most popular honeymoon
destinations at the time were the French Riviera and
Italy, particularly its seaside resorts and romantic
cities such as Rome, Verona or Venice. Typically honeymoons
would start on the night they were married.
One of the more recent
citations in the Oxford English Dictionary
indicates that, while today honeymoon has a positive
meaning, the word was originally a reference to the
inevitable waning of love like a phase of the moon.
This, the first known literary reference to the honeymoon,
was penned in 1552, in Richard Huloet's Abecedarium
Anglico Latinum.
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