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

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child wife

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

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 Margaret Fuller

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

So Poe came to New York, and with him Virginia, his child wife, who was already marked a victim of consumption, and there in the Carmine Street house they lived.

From Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations by Charles Hemstreet