child bride
nounEtymology
Compound of child + bride.
Definitions
A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as…
A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
- Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow minor girls to be child brides.
- With a smile and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian
- Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see her... [sic] ...for the first time.
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