单词 | picture bride |
释义 | > as lemmaspicture bride picture bride n. U.S. a woman who agrees to a marriage arranged through the exchange of photographs, esp. (now historical) an Asian woman for whom marriage is thus arranged to a man from her own country who is already resident in the United States. ΚΠ 1910 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 14 Dec. 8/4 The thirty Japanese ‘picture’ brides who arrived on the Chiyo Maru on Friday. 2003 KoreAm May 25/2 Born in San Francisco, the daughter of a picture bride, Sonia graduated in 1938 from San Francisco State University. < as lemmas |
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