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2 Words to use with fillet
Into the forest's deep recesses The solemn Prophet-Maiden pass'd, And, scornful, from her loosen'd tresses, The sacred fillet cast! "To all its arms doth Mirth unfold, And every heart foregoes its cares; And Hope is busy in the old; The bridal-robe my sister wears.
When the bridegroom's house is reached, the bride smears the doorposts with fat and oil and ties a woollen fillet round each: she is then lifted over the threshold, is taken by her husband into the partnership of fire and waterthe essentials of domestic lifeand passes into the atrium.