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单词 bride-lifter
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bride-lifter
bride-lifter n. Obsolete rare a male attendant at a wedding who lifts the bride into a vehicle or over a barrier as part of a local custom. [In quot. 1865 after North Frisian (Sylt) brid-lefter.]
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1865 J. F. McLennan Primitive Marriage ii. 33 A young fellow, called the bride-lifter, lifts the bride..upon the waggon.
1902 Folk-lore 13 229 The bride-groom leaped lightly over [the ‘Petten Stone’] after her, and dropped a coin into the hand of one of the ‘bride-lifters’.
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