child bride
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of child bride
First recorded in 1835–45
Example Sentences
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Yet, she met respectable friends in Rochester, and grew from a child bride into a competent woman.
From Literature
Nisha and Munna have an older sister who was married in 2020 at the age of 16, and their mother, Laali, was a child bride herself.
From BBC
Afghan child bride is now a top bodybuilder.
From MarketWatch
It is hard to imagine that just 15 years ago, she was a teenage mother in Afghanistan, married off as a child bride, before she escaped to her new life.
From BBC
The same goes for “Child Bride,” a downcast and disturbing tale later reworked into the up-tempo guitar-pop tune “Working on the Highway.”
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