groomsman

And the countess-dowager fanned herself complacently, and neither she nor Maude cared for the absence of a groomsman.

As bad luck would have it, the man who was to stand with Eudora as groomsman failed to come, and I was asked to take his place.

In the same way the senior groomsman (the best man) was the personal attendant of the husband.

He is a groomsman; but the party disband to-morrow; only Miss Morris attending the young couple to their home up the country.

I was groomsman at Eva's wedding the other day, and gave her a handsome present, as it was expected I should.