mail-order bride
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mail-order bride
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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Poor Hank, inevitably stood up by his mail-order bride.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024
The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
The mom comes to the U.S. as a mail-order bride of a Microsoft executive, played by Dan Lauria.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2022
In those cringey moments, which Fish menacingly foregrounds, I was reminded of Schreck’s stories of her great-great-grandmother Theressa, a mail-order bride who emigrated from Germany to Washington State in 1879.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 16, 2019
A key figure is her great-great-grandmother, Theresa, a German immigrant who came to Washington as a mail-order bride and died in a mental institution at age 36, a casualty of “melancholia.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2019
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