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war bride
noun
- a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
- a woman who marries a foreign serviceman and goes to live in his country.
war bride
noun
- a soldier's bride met as a result of troop movements in wartime, esp a foreign national
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Word History and Origins
Origin of war bride1
First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences
If she could not be a bird man, she could at least be a very happy war bride.
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Beside her stood another war-bride of but a few more weeks' standing, young Mrs. Awdas.
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Said she didn't want to be no war bride, that she could wait for me better if I didn't.
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Proudly the war bride, ending so, Sank breathless in the dumb white snow.
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But he had never loved—unless it might be, mildly, Concepcion, and Concepcion was now a war bride.
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