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
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
Directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring John Ericson and Pier Angeli, “Teresa” told the story of an American G.I. who returns home with his Italian war bride, and his painful adjustment to civilian life.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2015
What if she wrote, as a woman who had been twice a war bride, to say that a subject such as he had chosen was too sacred to put into print?
From Where the Path Breaks by Créspigny, Charles de
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