war bride

noun

war bride

a soldier's bride met as a result of troop movements in wartime, esp a foreign national

First recorded in 1915–20

If she could not be a bird man, she could at least be a very happy war bride.

Beside her stood another war-bride of but a few more weeks' standing, young Mrs. Awdas.

Said she didn't want to be no war bride, that she could wait for me better if I didn't.

Proudly the war bride, ending so, Sank breathless in the dumb white snow.

But he had never loved—unless it might be, mildly, Concepcion, and Concepcion was now a war bride.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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