child bride
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Noun
child bride (plural child brides)
- A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
- Coordinate term: child groom
- Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.
- 1878, Frank Leslie's Sunday magazine, Volumes 3-4, page 206
- With a smile and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian
- 1912, Metropolitan, Volume 36, page 1
- Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see her... [sic] ...for the first time.
- 1993 Alixa Naf, Becoming American, page 142
- Ohio, where she had peddled with her parents until she became a child bride to Salem's brother Khalil, in 1896
- 2008, Hafiza Nilofar Khan, The University of Southern Mississippi, Treatment of a wife's body in the fiction of Indian subcontinental women writers, page 46
- In this article she discusses the 1992 incident in which a Hyderabadi Muslim father sells his daughter as a child-bride to an Arab named Yahya Mohammed al-Sageih for Rs. 6000.
Translations
very young bride
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