What is "maids of honor"

Usage examples of "maids of honor".

I watched those who sat around you, the serving children and guards and Maids of Honor, and saw how they craved your affection.

Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.

Shandie had warned her that he was a libertine and asked her to drop a warning to her maids of honor.

As was usual, the girls served Queen Leonora as maids of honor, while the boys went as pages or squires, depending on their ages.

Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor.

But the goslings, her maids of honor, had heard the cheering and persuaded her.