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mail-order bride
[ meyl-awr-der brahyd ]
noun
- a woman who solicits or accepts a contractual marriage arranged by an agency or brokerage after a period of long-distance courtship, traditionally by written correspondence.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mail-order bride1
First recorded in 1905–10
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I leafed through headshots with a Russian mail-order bride while my parents drank tea with her mother.
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Poor Hank, inevitably stood up by his mail-order bride.
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He joked that Miss Dynasty is "a mail-order bride from China".
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“She outlived all these kings and she was supposed to be just a mail-order bride. She ended up ruling over everybody.”
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The plot, set in frostbitten Wisconsin in 1907, was about a widower seeking a practical and homely mail-order bride and instead getting an ominous beauty.
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