| 单词 | bride-wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbride-wife bride-wife n. a bride or newly married woman. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > people connected with wedding > [noun] > bride brideOE spousessc1384 espousee1480 bridewoman1530 bride-wife1567 espousess1597 novia1874 makoti1949 1567 G. Turberville tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. f. 51 Ne didst thou cause a marriage bed for bridewife to be drest. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron vi. iv. 287 The wedding ring, giuen vnto the Bridewife, had this inscription or posie, Mazaltob. 1865 New Haven (Connecticut) Daily Palladium 14 Nov. Whether the bride wife was more pained than pleased at the unexpected return of her first liege lord, I will not undertake to conjecture. 1925 Adelong & Tumut (Austral.) Express 20 Nov. 1/4 ‘Look, look, Reu, isn't that just too lovely for words?’ cried Alcie, the bridewife of a week, darting from the door of the sacristan's little cottage parlor. 1988 H. Herbst Chocolate Mouse iv. 121 Here she is,..dreaming great dreams of her future as Agnes Moira O'Hare, bride-wife, risen like the phoenix to a new life, never again Agnes O'Connell, widow. < as lemmas |
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