bridesmaiden

noun

Etymology

From bride + -s- + maiden.

  1. derived from *magaþs
  2. derived from *magaþ
  3. inherited from mæġden — “girl
  4. inherited from mayden
  5. formed as bridesmaiden — “bride + -s- + maiden

Definitions

  1. An unmarried bridesmaid.

    • And when a little bridesmaiden, uncommonly like you, / Comes into church so trippingly, all dress’d in white and blue, / You’ll discover, as you reach the middle aisle, / Why they linger’d, linger’d, linger’d at the stile.
    • “But it will be a deception,” urged Mòr. “I shall have to appear as chief bridesmaiden, whilst I am a married woman.”

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