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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1520-1578, 1662-1676
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Brydgrome, n. Also: -gromme; bridgrome, -groume, -growme. [e.m.E. brydegrome (1526), ME. brid(e)- , bryd-gome, early ME. bridgume, OE. brýdguma.] A bride-groom. a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 114.
Bath the brydgrome & the bryd c1520-c1535 Nisbet I. 46 marg.
Thairfor sayis Christ his discipillis fastis nocht quhill the brydgromme is with [thaim] 1533 Gau 57/2, 4.
He quhilk hes weddit ane spous is ane bridgrowme … And he consent notht, he is notht callit ane bridgroume a1578 Pitsc. II. 125/6.
So the bryd and brydgrome war put to thair beddis 1662 Lamont Diary 193.
The bridgrome did not returne till after … Lord Colven's death 1676 Misc. Hist. Soc. I. 284.
We shall … remember the bride and bridgroume
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