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Webster 1913 Edition
Bridesman
Brides′man
,Noun.
pl.
Bridesmen
. A male friend who attends upon a bridegroom and bride at their marriage; the “best man.”
Sir W. Scott.
Definition 2024
bridesman
bridesman
English
Alternative forms
- bride's-man
Noun
bridesman (plural bridesmen)
- A male friend or companion of the bridegroom, having various ceremonial duties at a wedding.
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1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 7:
- It was customary, in those days, for the bride's-man and maiden, and a few select friends, to visit the newly married couple after they had retired to rest […].
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2005, Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Ritual, p. 26:
- According to him, on the following Thursday, the bridesmen, numbering “six, eight, even ten or more,” rode on horseback with four wagons to get the bride.
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1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 7:
- A male bridesmaid; a man who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the wedding party.