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Bridegroom’s Men

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In the Roman marriage by confarreatio, the bride was led to the Ponʹtifex Maxʹimus by bachelors, but was conducted home by married men. Polydore Virgil says that a married man preceded the bride on her return, bearing a vessel of gold and silver. (See Bride Cake.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Bride Cake
Bride or Wedding Favours
Bride of Abydos
Bride of Lammermoor
Bride of the Sea
Bridegroom
Bridegroom’s Men
Bridewell
Bridge of Gold
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Bridge of Sighs
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Bridlegoose (Judge)
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