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Definition of Brides
1. bride [n] - See also: bride
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brides
Literary usage of Brides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern France, Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1902)
"From Moûtiers to brides-les-Bains and to ... 334). Nearer rises the Dent de Villard.
33/4 M. brides-les- ..."
2. Songs of Three Centuries by John Greenleaf Whittier (1890)
"Within, in pall-black velvet clad, Sits stately in her oaken chair— And listens
to her frequent plaint,— "1ll fare the brides that come to Quail. ..."
3. Camilla, Or, A Picture of Youth. by Fanny Burney (1802)
"brides and no brides, TN the hall of the Cleves ... The baronet greeted in
particular the two nieces he regarded as brides elect, with an elation that ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1887)
"CAPTURED brides IN FAR CATHAY. HISTORY tells us that there are almost as many
ways of marrying a wife as there are roads to Rome. When the world was young, ..."
5. The Immigration Problem: A Study of American Immigration Conditions and Needs by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, William Jett Lauck (1917)
"PICTURE brides: PROXY MARRIAGES Among these Japanese, perhaps 7000 are adult ...
Many of the married women come as so-called "picture brides," that is, ..."
6. South-eastern France Including Corsica: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (Firm (1898)
"The establishment, rebuilt in 1890-91, is subject to the same management and
tariff as that of brides. We now turn to the E. and, leaving on the right the ..."
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