1847 C. Brontë II. ix. 220 Young Mrs. Rochester—Fairfax Rochester's girl-bride.
1935 Mar. 143/2 Quite a young man by the side of his girl-bride.
1997 C. B. Divakaruni 54 A girlbride in a sharara seeing for the first time the stooped, wrinkled man her father sold her to.