[Altered from the earlier BRIDEMAN, q.v.] A young man who acts as friend or attendant of the bridegroom at a wedding, and performs various ceremonial offices for him.
1808. Scott, Lochinvar, iii. Among bride’s-men and kinsmen, and brothers and all.
1811. W. Spencer, Poems, 21. No common bridesmen wait us there.
1859. Smiles, Stephenson, 348. To poor Robert Gray … who acted as his bridesman on his marriage … he left a pension.
