bride
noun
a newly married woman or a woman about to be married.
brideless
-
a word derived from
bride.
Example Sentences
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Martin Wilbourne, unexpectedly bound for overseas duty, hopped off his train, married the girl awaiting him at the station, hopped back, departed brideless.
From Time Magazine Archive
He married her, but last March he ar rived in Manhattan, brideless and damning a U. S. Consul in Jugoslavia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outraged bridegroom had returned from his meditations to find himself brideless.
From The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old by Florence Partello Stuart
The brideless Becket is thy king and mine: I will go live and die in Aquitaine.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Be quite the woman, give To every wish the rein, that brideless May seize on thee, and whirl thee here and there.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
