bridesmatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridesmatrons
Etymology: From bride + -s- + matron, by analogy with bridesmaid and maid of honor, matron of honor.
Senses: examples: text: In the celebrated Aldobrandini fresco-painting, found in the baths of Titus, the bride is seated veiled on a bed, with the pronuba or bridesmatron near her, whilst the bridegroom sits at the foot of the bed.
ref: 1854, Erotica. The poems of Catullus and Tibullus, and the Vigil of Venus, a prose tr. with notes, by W.K. Kelly. To which are added the metrical versions of Lamb and Grainger, and a selection of versions by other writers, page 49:
text: The banquet ended, the bride was escorted to the nuptial couch (Lectus genialis) by Pronubae, bridesmatrons, who differed from the bridesmaids of modern times only in the respect that they were married ladies who had been united to only one husband (Univirae).
ref: 1867, The Poems of Valerius Catullus, page 233:
text: Sallie Adele Pendleton, the maid of honor wore pink satin covered with georgette, and the bridesmatrons, Mrs. Leo Gatlin and Mrs. Wilbur Groom both wore gowns of pink georgette, all carrying bouquets of Columbia roses in the light and darker shades.
ref: 1920, The Independent, volume 43, page 6:
text: A badly defaced panel shows a Roman marriage ceremony (H. 19% in. [49.2 cm.]). The contracting couple are clasping their right hands, while the officiating bridesmatron stands behind them with her hands on their shoulders.
ref: 1924, The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, volume 19, page 241:
text: Lois Gill, B K, wore an enchanting bridal gown and Mrs. Charles McConville (Barbara Reifel), B K, and Diane Lancaster, B K, were bridesmatron and bridesmaid.
ref: 1954, The Adelphean, page 24:
text: Mrs. Bobby Pechal of Temple was bridesmatron, Miss Annette Pyle of Houston served as bridesmaid.
ref: 1957, The Milk Producer, page 4:
text: But Elagabalus solemnly went through a form of marriage with Zoticus and insisted that someone should act as “bridesmaid or bridesmatron.”
ref: 1958, The Caesars: Might and Madness, page 240:
text: Mrs. Dean Webb was bridesmatron and Harold Klusman was best man.
ref: 1968, The Wisconsin Times, page 13:
text: Huey and her cousin Terry Kwong were bridesmatron and bridesmaid respectively.
ref: 1969, Chinatown News, page 35:
text: Miss Helen Hale, sister of the bride, served as maid of honor, while Miss Ann Dougan, daughter of Chief Claim Agent J. W. Dougan, was the bridesmaid and Mrs. Andrew Hurst of Roanoke, was the bridesmatron.
ref: 1970, Norfolk and Western Magazine, page 297:
text: Attending the bride in gowns of pastel green trimmed with white daisies were Mrs. Patricia Parks as Matron of Honor and Judy Williamson and Karen Allbert, sisters of the bride, as bridesmatrons.
ref: 1972, Zarja, page 8:
text: […] F. Meikle and the groom’s cousin, Miss Bonnie Robertson, were bridesmatron and bridesmaid.
ref: 1973, Lenna Gowdey, Our Sire's Monument: The Merrithews of America, page III:
text: The bridesmaid, Miss Joan Spellman of Denton, and bridesmatron , Mrs. Karl Linke, Jr., wore gowns of sea green and amber.
ref: 1982, Ancestry and Descendants of Johann Dirk Eilers, 1815-1885, Pioneer Settler, Johnson County, Nebraska, page 78:
text: Their good friends Maurice and Lora Dell Freed served as best man and bridesmatron.
ref: 1983, Houder-Westcott Proud Connections, page 304:
text: The bridesmaid, Lois Anderson, sister of the bride, and bridesmatron, Mrs. Tom Latter, Jr., wore dresses styled like that of the maid of honor, but were a darker shade of blue.
ref: 1984, Marilyn Macklin, The Damgaard Family Album, page 121:
text: Wearing alike costumes of holiday red silk taffeta the attendants were Mrs. Donald Lind (Pat Stafford), the matron of honor; Mrs. Ronald Green (Gretchen Teal), the bridesmatron; bridesmaids Miss Carolyn Schimmel, Miss Marilyn Mousel of McCook and Sherrill Saylor, who was the sister's junior bridesmaid.
ref: 1985, John Galen Saylor, Helen Smith Saylor, A Smith Lineage: A Brief History and Genealogical Record of One Line of Descendants of Robert Smith, 1623-1985, page 282:
text: Bridesmatron was Shannon Packer. Bridesmaids were Barbara Bremer and Cindy Wilson.
ref: 1991, Association of Philippe Du Trieux Descendants Newsletter, page 12:
text: Bridesmatrons were Teresa Sessions, the groom’s twin sister, Eau Claire, and Kathy McCourt, the bride's sister-in-law, of Portland.
ref: 1994, The American Descendants of Henry Luce of Martha's Vineyard, volume 4:
text: Bridesmatron was Christa Wells Campbell from West Palm Beach in Florida and bridesmaid was Setsumi Togawa from Nashville in Tennessee.
ref: 1996, Journal of the Clan Campbell Society, page 35:
text: Miss Beverly Durbin of Kewanee, and Mrs. Paul Grieve of Toulon, were the bridesmaid and bridesmatron.
ref: 1998, Virginia M. Heaton Horton, Nicholas Blust/Von Blust from Baden, Baden, Germany to Freeport, IL, 1827-1998, page 75:
text: Out in the driveway, Tova smoothed the cleaner’s plastic over the sleeves of her green bridesmatron’s dress, the Tova Zissie dress.
ref: 2003 January 16, Risa Miller, Welcome to Heavenly Heights: A Novel; republished United States: St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014 July 8, →ISBN:
glosses: A married bridesmaid.