Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman who attends the bride at a wedding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young girl or an unmarried woman who attends on a bride at her marriage during the ceremony.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A woman who attends the
bride at awedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding group. - verb To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend the bride during a wedding ceremony.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding
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Examples
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Those same girls who went to 27 Dresses in bridesmaid dresses can go to this one in the same dresses (not zipped up, t-shirt on underneath).
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Being a bridesmaid is not the epitome of the female experience, but I'd put it right up there as one of the most humiliating aspects.
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My landlady's daughter I called my bridesmaid; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning, I gave the young woman a good suit of knots, as good as the town would afford, and finding it was a lace-making town, I gave her mother a piece of bone-lace for a head.
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923
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My landlady's daughter I called my bridesmaid; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning, I gave the young woman a good suit of knots, as good as the town would afford, and finding it was a lace-making town, I gave her mother a piece of bone-lace for a head.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1696
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The title of bridesmaid is hardly one you can’t refuse.
Something New Elise Mac Adam 2008
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The title of bridesmaid is hardly one you can’t refuse.
Something New Elise Mac Adam 2008
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The title of bridesmaid is hardly one you can’t refuse.
Something New Elise Mac Adam 2008
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My landlady’s daughter I called my bridesmaid; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning, I gave the young woman a good suit of knots, as good as the town would afford, and finding it was
Moll Flanders 2003
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The overall tone of this book is one that had me chuckling out loud as I pictured a good friend sitting down with me over Cosmos and giving me the low down on what being a bridesmaid is all about.
All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Book Talk: She’s Gone Bridal by Liz Razin 2009
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Ask Carley: This bridesmaid needs to be uninvited While kicking out a bridesmaid is a major no-no, this is an exception.
The Seattle Times 2011
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