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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

He is not less rich than my father; he has neither child, wife nor brother, nor any kindred of his blood nearer than you.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

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

What right have Canadians to point the finger of scorn at the reproach of the child wife when the age of marriage in one province is twelve years?

From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)