Without a bride; lacking a bride; not accompanied by or having a bride; unmarried (especially of a man waiting to marry).
From bride plus negative suffix -less (meaning without). Standard English word formation for creating opposites.
In medieval poetry, 'brideless' is used for men waiting desperately to marry—it's a state of incompleteness, suggesting that a man without a bride was somehow incomplete as a person.
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