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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1500-1512, 1569-1617
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Bryd, Brid, n. Also: bryde. [ME. bryd(e, brid(e, OE. brýd.] A bride. a1400 Legends of the Saints vi. 114.
Bath the brydgrome & the bryd c1500-c1512 Dunb. Flyt. 189.
Quhilk brewis mekle barrat to thy bryd 1511 Treasurer's Accounts IV. 314.
To ane brid of Leith that met the King in the gait 1571 Satirical Poems xxvi. 21.
Efter that, quhen lymmers loust thair bryde, He faucht for ȝow a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxxviii. 118.
The women … man be buskit wp lyk bryddis 1617 Mure Misc. P. xxi. 87.
Now … lyk a bryd advance thy chearfull head
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