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Definition of Bride-to-be
1. Noun. A woman who is engaged to be married.
Definition of Bride-to-be
1. Noun. A woman who is soon to be married. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bride-to-be
Literary usage of Bride-to-be
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sumptuary Law in Nürnberg: A Study in Paternal Government by Kent Roberts Greenfield (1918)
"On the evening of the announcement the bride-to-be might have her betrothed and
two friends of his to dine, and with them two women friends of hers, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1814)
"... into their chamber, where the old woman exhorts the bride to be gentle and
obedient to bei husband, and the man to love his wife as he ought to do. ..."
3. A Summary View of the Millenial Church: Or United Society of Believers by Shakers (1848)
"But the time for the Bride to be revealed had not then arrived; and therefore
she was often spoken of in a figurative sense. The church was the body of ..."
4. The Theocratic Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus, the Christ, as Covenanted in the by George Nathaniel Henry Peters (1884)
"Dr. Brookes makes the bride to be " the redeemed and restored Israel," and the
virgins to be ..."
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