Meanings
- uncountableA Bengali ritual feast traditionally held after a wedding, where the groom's family for the first time taste rice cooked by the new bride.
The three-day festivities closed with bou-bhat, when the bride served rice to the male elders of her husband's family.
2009, Rochona Majumdar, Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal, page 1011 more example
The next day, after the wedding, when his relatives and guests saw Jutimala dressed in an inky blue Benarsi sari, her forehead painted with sandalwood stars at the bou bhat ceremony, they were stunned by her beauty and understood why Khitish had fallen head over heels in love with her!
2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee
Origin
- Bengaliবউ ভাত
- Englishbou bhat
From Bengali বউ ভাত (bou bhat).
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