"groomhood" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1899, “THE PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES: FOURTH SERIES”, in parliamentary debates, volume LXXII, page dccxxi",
          "text": "He need not reside in a room, but only in a bunk, and a bunk need not be rated for the relief of the poor. We talk about manhood suffrage, but what about groomhood suffrage?",
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          "ref": "1929, The Sleeping Car Conductor, volumes 12-13, page 25",
          "text": "[...] and those women who are joined to them in marriage, long to see Brother Knechtel before the blush of groomhood wears off his cheerful countenance, [...]",
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          "ref": "1985, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 9, Issues 10-13 - Page 59",
          "text": "As he reverts to groomhood, there enters in haste Adolesco himself from the secret corridor, who still has barely presence of mind to thank his impersonator, and they might have got into a discussion of the gelding's off rear pastern problem, [...]",
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          "ref": "1991, The Indian Journal of Social Work - Volume 52 - Page 205",
          "text": "Some social scientists (Altekar, 1962; Aziz, 1983; Srinivas, 1984) attribute the increasing prevalence of dowry to the concept of groomhood being drastically changed from the normal eligible bachelor to a fancy product."
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          "ref": "2012, Avram Davidson, The Scarlet Fig",
          "text": "And besides, Vergil had already been some while ago made free of the Eleusinian bridehood and the groomhood, a mystagogue was he, of that and of other mysteries, perhaps lesser known, if not, who shall say: [...]",
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        "The state, quality, or condition of being a groom; groomdom."
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          "ref": "1985, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 9, Issues 10-13 - Page 59",
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