 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1847 - 518 sider
...at the church-door until the marriage is over, and then run to the bride's door. The prize a riband, which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner. North. BRIDE-LACES. A kind of broad riband or small streamer, often worn at weddings, alluded to in... | |
 | John Harland - 1873 - 696 sider
...wait at the church-door until the marriage ceremony be over, and from thence run to the bridc's-iloor. The prize [is usually] a ribbon which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner.' See EDS Gloss. B. 2. The ribbon is understood to be a delicate substitute fur the bride's garters,... | |
 | Rev. W. W. Skeat - 1874 - 388 sider
...church-door until the marriage ceremony be over, and from thence run to the bride's door. The prize, a ribbon, which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner. If the distance be great, as two or three miles, it is customary to 'ride for the bride-door.' Bride-wain,... | |
 | John Christopher Atkinson - 1891 - 490 sider
...Glossary, and collector of unconsidered trifles in the way of tradition, local legend, and the like, says, "To ' run for the bride-door ' is to join in the race...which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner." That other great collector of archaic words and phrases, usually quoted as Mr. Halliwell, after giving... | |
 | Folklore Society (Great Britain) - 1901 - 504 sider
...church-door until the marriage ceremony be over, and from thence run to the bride's door. The prize, a ribbon, which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner. If the distance be great, as two or three miles, it is customary ' to ride for the bridedoor.' —... | |
 | Eliza Gutch - 1901 - 502 sider
...church-door until the marriage ceremony be over, and from thence run to the bride's door. The prize, a ribbon, which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner. If the distance be great, as two or three miles, it is customary ' to ride for the bridedoor.' —... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1901 - 528 sider
...at the church-door until the marriage is over, and then run to the bride's door. The prize a riband, which is worn for the day in the hat of the winner. North. BRIDE-LACES. A kind of broad riband or small streamer, often worn at weddings, alluded to in... | |
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is to start for a favor given by a bride, to be run for by the youth of the neighbourhood, who wait at the church-door until the marriage ceremony be over, and from thence run to the bride's door. The prize, a ribbon, which is worn for the day in the... 