| 单词 | bride boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbride boy bride boy n. now historical and rare a young man or boy who acts as an attendant to the bride or groom at a wedding, and who performs various ceremonial duties; cf. pageboy n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > attendant > page bride boy1614 pagea1668 pageboy1939 1614 C. Brooke in Englands Helicon (new ed.) sig. Rv Forth honour'd Groome; behold, not farre behind Your willing Bride; led by two strengthlesse Boyes. [Note] Bride Boyes. 1926 Auckland (N.Z.) Star 16 Nov. 23/5 Did they have a superstition then, I wonder, three times a brideboy never a bridegroom? 2007 G. Greer Shakespeare's Wife vi. 102 Will would have been undressed by his bride boys who would carry off his points, the ties that secured his codpiece, to keep for talismans. < as lemmas |
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