Definition of "bridesmaid" []

• A woman who attends the bride at a wedding. (noun)

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• "Those same girls who went to 27 Dresses in bridesmaid dresses can go to this one in the same dresses (not zipped up, t-shirt on underneath)."
• "Being a bridesmaid is not the epitome of the female experience, but I'd put it right up there as one of the most humiliating aspects."
• "My landlady's daughter I called my bridesmaid; and sending for a shopkeeper the next morning, I gave the young woman a good suit of knots, as good as the town would afford, and finding it was a lace-making town, I gave her mother a piece of bone-lace for a head."