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Bride

noun

A woman who has recently been married.

Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland (453-523). Synonyms: Bridget, Brigid, Saint Bride, Saint Bridget, Saint Brigid, St. Bride, St. Bridget, St. Brigid.

A woman participant in her own marriage ceremony.

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"Bride" Quotes from Famous Books

... bride and bridegroom were taking a walk together, and the path led down to the river, and over ...

— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... wedding-day approached, and again disappointment overshadowed it; Caruthers fell ill with the erysipelas, and lost the use of one of his eyes entirely. The friends and relatives of the bride, considering that she had already put up with more than could reasonably be expected of her, now came forward and insisted that the match should be broken off; but after wavering awhile, Aurelia, with a generous spirit which did her credit, said she had reflected calmly upon the matter, and could ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... I know! Their Hell yawns for cowards; their Paradise opens to receive the brave! Death is as a bride to the Moslem!" ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... difficulties because of him, and if the story went out that he was not back at Maynooth his mother declares it "wouldn't be east in Macroom when we'd have the bailiffs walking in that door." She tells him, too, his being a spoiled priest will cost his brother his bride and her fortune that would help them to pay off their debts. The boy cannot withstand their pleading, and the first act ends with his promise that he will go back to Maynooth, a promise wrung from him even though he knows at the time of ...

— Irish Plays and Playwrights • Cornelius Weygandt

... Here, for instance, was their own princess, Brunichildis, reared in Arianism, converted to the orthodox creed, clinging to it tenaciously through all the perils and adversities of her own stormy career, and able to imbue the child-bride, her daughter, with such an unyielding devotion to the faith of Nicaea, that not one of all the formidable personages whom she met in her new husband's home could avail to move her by one hair's ...

— The Church and the Barbarians - Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 • William Holden Hutton

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