| 单词 | bride-leader |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbride-leader bride-leader n. rare a person chosen to act as the attendant to the bride at a wedding and to perform various ceremonial duties, esp. in leading the bride (and sometimes her entourage) to the bridegroom.In most cultures, a bride-leader is male (cf. bridesman n. 1), but mature married women may perform this role in some places (cf. quot. 1854).In later use chiefly with reference to the customs of Central and Northern Europe. [With the later uses compare e.g. Swedish brudledare (17th cent.), and also German Brautführer (16th cent.), Swedish brudförare, brudförerska (17th cent.).] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > one who brings or gives away bride bride-leader1552 father1600 despouser1635 nuptial father1748 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bryde leader, pronubus. 1718 Mock Epithalamium upon Fictitious Marriage Pretender 15 Jupiter's cup-bearer..wou'd be made one of the Bride-leaders to the Lady. 1854 H. Newland Forest Scenes Norway & Sweden xxviii. 399 The bride-leaders, married women, who are supposed to encourage the brides during the ceremony. 1951 A. Stifter tr. in Folklore 62 460 We stood up..and went out, following the Bride-leader, along the road leading to God's House. < as lemmas |
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