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

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)

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

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 Hemstreet, Charles