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bride

1   [brahyd]
noun
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English brȳd; cognate with Dutch bruid, German Braut, Old Norse brūthr, Gothic brūths

Related forms
bride·less, adjective
bride·like, adjective

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bride

2   [brahyd; Fr. breed]
noun
1.
Also called bar, leg, tie. a connection consisting of a thread or a number of threads for joining various solid parts of a design in needlepoint lace.
2.
an ornamental bonnet string.
Origin:
1865–70; < French: bonnet-string, bridle, Old French < Germanic; see bridle
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bride
O.E. bryd "bride, betrothed or newly married woman," from P.Gmc. *bruthiz "woman being married" (cf. O.Fris. breid, Du. bruid, O.H.G. brut, Ger. Braut "bride"). Goth. cognate bruþs, however, meant "daughter-in-law," and the form of the word borrowed from O.H.G. into M.L. (bruta) and O.Fr. (bruy)
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only had this sense. In ancient IE custom, the married woman went to live with her husband's family, so the only "newly wed female" in such a household would be the daughter-in-law. On the same notion, some trace the word itself to the PIE verbal root *bru- "to cook, brew, make broth," as this was the daughter-in-law's job.
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