| 单词 | child-bride |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschild-bride child-bride n. a bride who is still a child; a very young bride. ΚΠ 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons II. v. i. 162 Boy-bridegroom and child-bride as we were. 1865 Spectator 7 Jan. 21/1 The child bride, who married at ten, joined her husband at fourteen, was left a widow at sixteen, and died at twenty-six. 1909 Daily Chron. 9 Oct. 3/1 The author shows us the child-bride arriving at the court of France. 1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. iii. 60 His sisters, who had been bartered as child brides to foreign princes, were little more to him now than time-dimmed memories. 2000 Big Issue 10 Apr. 31/4 Norma Jeane's [sic] trajectory from child-bride to blonde bombshell, her vulnerability and intense need to find herself, propel the reader past the sticky bits. < as lemmas |
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