1 of 1. For example, an evening event in a grand ballroom with a seated multi-course dinner and an orchestra calls for equally impressive attire: for the groom, full dress or white tie; for the bride, perhaps a satin gown with a voluminous skirt and long veil.
BRICTIUS: Variant spelling of Latin Bricius, meaning pied, spotted, speckled.. BRUTUS: Roman Latin name meaning heavy or the dullard.. In use by the English. CADMUS: Latin form of Greek Kadmos, meaning the east.. In mythology, this is the name of the brother of Europa.
Recorded as Brycgstow in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle dated 1063, and as Bristou in the Domesday Book of 1086, the name derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century brycg, a bridge, plus stow, an assembly place; hence, assembly place on a bridge.he surname from this source is first recorded towards the end of the 12th Century (see below), and Peter de Bristo appeared in the 1195 Pipe Rolls of Oxfordshire. The spelling Bristoll appears in the Pipe Rolls of Gloucestershire, dated 1200. The final l on the name is attributed to scribes' Latin.