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2. Party favor - Wikipedia

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   While the term "party favor" is modern, the practice dates back to the classical Graeco-Roman tradition, where food or flowers were gifted to the attendees of an event. In the Middle Ages entertainers were throwing small objects at the spectators, and the elaborate table decorations were sometimes gifted to important guests after the party.

3. Pew - Wikipedia

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   In some churches, pews were installed at the expense of the congregants, and were their personal property; there was no general public seating in the church itself. In these churches, pew deeds recorded title to the pews, and were used to convey them. Pews were originally purchased from the church by their owners under this system, and the ...

4. Kneeler - Wikipedia

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   The Missal, by John William Waterhouse (1902), depicts a woman kneeling on a prie-dieu, a piece of furniture with a built-in kneeler. A kneeler is a cushion (also called a tuffet, hassock, genuflexorium, or genuflectorium) or a piece of furniture used for resting in a kneeling position during Christian prayer.

5. Chuppah - Wikipedia

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   The word chuppah appears in the Hebrew Bible, for example in Joel 2:16 and Psalms 19:5.Abraham P. Bloch states that the connection between the term chuppah and the wedding ceremony "can be traced to the Bible"; however, "the physical appearance of the chuppah and its religious significance have undergone many changes since then".