maid-of-honour

She doesn't seem to have been particularly devout and in a fit of pique, she punished her stepdaughter Mary for her rudeness to her by having Mary's favourite maid-of-honour banished from Court.

The Fifth Queen elena maria vidal 2009

Besides the fact that I am now saddled with an expensive dress I will never, ever, wear again, in a colour which leaves me looking like a half-dead corpse found in an old marsh out on the edge of city limits; I have the honour of standing next to the bride and the maid-of-honour.

My Romantic Fantasies…Biting me On the Ass @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy 2006

‘Get to your bed, Margery, child, you are sleepy,’ said the young lady kindly to her queer little maid-of-honour.

Wylder's Hand 2003

Jane had taken the lady back to the house-place and was hovering around her, with little of the grace of a maid-of-honour to be sure, but with a heartiness and zeal that more than atoned for any lack of style.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

The heroine of the ballad was a Danish maid-of-honour to James's Queen; her name is variously recorded as Margaret Vinstar, Weiksterne,

Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series Various

There was a pause, and then, with a voice as hard as steel, Catherine de Medicis said to her favourite maid-of-honour:

Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

Then Stevey Todd could not get over thinking he would have been a better maid-of-honour than Uncle

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

He had the soft purring ways of a cat, the tact of a Jesuit, the penetration of a money-lender, the sensibility of a musical amateur, and the morals of a maid-of-honour.

Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

And she, saying that she wanted a maid-of-honour, chose Uncle Abimelech for that purpose, which seemed scarcely reasonable, but the minister married them and went his way.

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

Lady Bloomfield, while maid-of-honour to the Queen, was much in the society of royalty.

Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 Anonymous