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unbridegroomlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + bridegroomlike.

Meanings

1. (dated) Not bridegroomlike.
   • Earl Richard's unbridegroomlike behaviour on his wedding night, and his agreeable discovery on the morrow, will remind the ballad reader of the gentle Sir Gawaine, […] 1846, William Motherwell, Minstrelsy, Ancient and Modern, page 251:
   • Then the bridegroom came slowly up the walk, wearing a very unbridegroomlike aspect, […] 1870, Marion Harland, Helen Gardner's Wedding-day, page 139:
   • Shaking himself from his wife, Monk traversed the passages from the chapel to the tower of the fortress alone in a very unbridegroomlike way to his apartment, […] 1844, Hampton Court; Or, The Prophecy Fulfilled, page 247:

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