war bride
Americannoun
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a woman who marries a serviceman about to go overseas in wartime.
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a woman who marries a foreign serviceman and goes to live in his country.
noun
Etymology
Origin of war bride
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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A Frenchman in postwar Europe poses as a war bride to avoid the red tape involved in emigrating to the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2020
His mother was an Austrian war bride and his father was a noted mathematician.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
No war bride I’ve interviewed felt she could go back to Japan.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2016
A French war bride still lives there, and another British one lives in a nursing home in Oxford, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2015
He was stationed somewhere—Marise didn't know where—and Cath had been a "war bride."
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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