beannachadh-bàird
sm Poet's congratulation. It was the custom in the Highlands, of old, to meet the bride coining forth from her chamber with her maidens on the morning after her marriage and to salute her with a poetical blessing called beannachadh-bàird — An Gàidheal, ii, 63. If at any jovial meeting, any man retired, for however short a time, he was obliged, before he was permitted to resume his seat, to make an apology for his absence in rhyme. If he had no talent for poetry, or if, from humour, he did not chose to comply, which was seldom the case, he was obliged to pay such a proportion of the reckoning as the company thought proper to propose. This, according to Martin, was beannachadh-bàird **.
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