grooms

There one of the grooms from the Court will meet you, and drive you to the house.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894

The weddings, which entitled the grooms, often already married with families back home, to stay in the UK, were conducted by Brown usually without the knowledge of his congregation or church wardens.

Vicar convicted of conducting hundreds of fake weddings at local parish church 2010

“True — ay — your horses — yes — I will call the grooms”; and sturdily did Caleb roar till the old tower rang again:

The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

The grooms were the first he saw, coming out to water their horses; and he asked, in so distressful a manner, what was become of Pamela, that they thought him crazy: and said, Why, what have you to do with Pamela, old fellow?

Pamela 2006

Circe, enrag'd to be so affronted, had recourse to revenge, and calling the grooms that belong'd to the house, made them give me a warming; nor was she satisfi'd with this, but calling all the servant-wenches, and meanest of the house, she made 'em spit upon me.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

As they dismounted the porter loudly called grooms to lead the horses into the stable and have them relieved of their burdens, but Sir Richard would not allow it, and left Little John to watch over them at the abbey portal.

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

He called the grooms, and we made ready, taking the horses out to where the folk of the archbishop waited in the sunny courtyard, and there leaving them.

A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford 1884

All the dogs of his farm-yards formed a pack of hounds at need; his grooms were his huntsmen; and the curate of the village was his grand almoner.

Candide 1694-1778 Voltaire 1736

The grooms were the first he saw, coming out to water their horses; and he asked, in so distressful a manner, what was become of Pamela, that they thought him crazy: and said, Why, what have you to do with Pamela, old fellow?

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Samuel Richardson 1725

The accounts turned out to be a hoax, but not before they caused a small scandal back on the mainland—particularly among the fiancées that several new "grooms" had left behind.

Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century 2006