Bridesman
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A male friend or companion of the bridegroom, having various ceremonial duties at a wedding.
"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 […]."
- 2 A male bridesmaid; a man who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the wedding party.
"She might be renting a tux, however, as she is willing to have a bridesman."
Example
More examples"It was then the custom, to prevent any coarse pleasantry which old times perhaps admitted, that the key of the nuptial chamber should be entrusted to the bridesman."
Etymology
From bride + -s- + man, by alteration of earlier brideman; compare bridesmaid.
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