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Bride   /braɪd/   Listen
noun
Bride  n.  
1.
A woman newly married, or about to be married. "Has by his own experience tried How much the wife is dearer than the bride." "I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife."
2.
Fig.: An object ardently loved.
Bride of the sea, the city of Venice.



verb
Bride  v. t.  To make a bride of. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bride" Quotes from Famous Books



... and blue ribbons, Mrs. Carnegie was not quick enough to restrain Jack from pointing a stumpy little finger at her and crying out, "There's our Bessie!" Bessie with a blush and a smile the more rallied round the bride, and then looked across the church at her mother with a merry, happy face that was ...
— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... the bushy beard about his ugly face, and had the crown of his head shaved besides—quite like that round, oily spot there on the top of good Ricardo's poll—and then he rigged himself out in a clerical gown, to which the trunks of my bride's old mother contributed, and, take my word for it, he was as proper and rascally a looking priest as could be found on the island of Cuba. He performed the ceremony, too, by way of practice, on Lascar Joe and the second cook beforehand, with as much decorum and solemnity, and gave as pious ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

... got up and went into the corridor to consult the conductor. One might have heard him say he'd very much prefer going into another compartment where it wouldn't be necessary for him to annoy a beastly American bride and groom—her maid and perhaps later on his man—all the way up ...
— The Hollow of Her Hand • George Barr McCutcheon

... his sons, had gone to Marseilles to meet the Medici bride, who was on her way to make her home at the Paris Louvre, and when he found her possessed of so lively manners and such great intelligence he became so charmed with her that, it is said, he danced with her all of the first evening. What pleased the monarch even more, and perhaps not ...
— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... down the wide staircase than the brilliant brunette in crimson brocade, the pensive blonde in blue, or the rosy little bride in ...
— Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories • Louisa M. Alcott


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