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

And—Colonel Arran caught him on his knees, with the lace to his lips—and the child wife crying.

From Ailsa Paige by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

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)