Bridesmaid
['braɪdzmeɪd] or ['braɪdzmed]
Definition
(noun.) an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding.
Checked by Annabelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
Checker: Nellie
Examples
- It had been intended that Miss Helstone should act as bridesmaid at the approaching nuptials, but Fortune had destined her another part. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There was no one bidden to the marriage but Mr. Lorry; there was even to be no bridesmaid but the gaunt Miss Pross. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I'm glad you decided not to be a bridesmaid; that shade of salmon-pink wouldn't have suited you. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Nobody noticed the first Bridesmaid. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then Caddy told us that she was going to be married in a month and that if Ada and I would be her bridesmaids, she was the happiest girl in the world. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Molly didn't care for the bridesmaids' dresses. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The chief bridesmaids had arrived. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The bridesmaids were here, and yet the bridegroom had not come. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Cecilia