child wife

American  

noun

1. a very young wife.

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Etymology

Origin of child wife

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Claudia, the child wife, is Dorothy McGuire, who perfected the part on Broadway.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so he is doomed, not only by Corruption, in the person of Parkinson, but by Innocence, personified in Marie Rycker, the child wife of a local factory operator.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was much gained by the child wife in these ways, and also from the conversation of the highly educated and intelligent older members of the family, of which she had now become a part.

From Elsie's New Relations by Finley, Martha

Who dare for child, wife, country--stream and strand,    Though but a fraction to the swarming foe, There--at the flooded gateways of the land,    To stem a torrent's flow.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

As in a glass darkly, I have seen what I might feel as child, wife, mother, but I have never really approached the close relations of life.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret