bridesman
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From bride + -s- + man, by alteration of earlier brideman; compare bridesmaid.
Noun
bridesman (plural bridesmen)
- A male friend or companion of the bridegroom, having various ceremonial duties at a wedding.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 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 […].
- 2005, Susan Karant-Nunn, The Reformation of Ritual, page 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.
- A male bridesmaid; a man who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the wedding party.
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Translations
male friend or companion of the bridegroom
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male bridesmaid
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