See bridesmaid on Wiktionary
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1858, Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne, volume 1, page 83:",
"text": "\"No, Trichy; I won't be Augusta's bridesmaid; I'll bide my time for bridesmaiding.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1915, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness, volume 45, page 204:",
"text": "And what's this? that isn't Herbie Frost with you in the canoe ; why he was best man when I bridesmaided Corinne.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1989, Kevin Killian, Shy, page 233:",
"text": "\"It's in my Data-fax, right here! December Bride: and I'm supposed to bridesmaid!\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Siri Agrell, Bad Bridesmaid: True Tales of Bachelorette Brawls and Taffeta Tantrums, page 150:",
"text": "After ten years of friendship and just six months of lackluster bridesmaiding, the women did not even get an invitation to the wedding.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Mark Townsend, Jesus Outside the Box: Twelve Spiritual Tales of the Unexpected, page 308:",
"text": "Still they bridesmaided for her.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To act as a bridesmaid for; to attend a bride during her wedding ceremony."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈbɹaɪdzˌmeɪd/"
},
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}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "bridemaid"
},
{
"word": "bride's maid"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
"word": "toimia morsiusneitona"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
"word": "seas le"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "act as a bridesmaid (for)",
"word": "vara brudtärna"
}
],
"word": "bridesmaid"
}
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