child bride

Definitions

A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.

Equivalents

Examples

“Saudi Arabia is one of the countries that allow⟳ minor girls to be child brides.”

“With a smile⟳ and baksheesh for the little fair-faced girl destined to be the child-bride of some unknown Egyptian”

“Alone in [he]r tent the frightened child-bride [w]aits her husband, who will see⟳ her... [sic] ...for the first time.”

“Ohio, where she had peddled with her parents until she became a child bride to Salem's brother Khalil, in 1896”

“In this article she discusses the 1992 incident in which a Hyderabadi Muslim father sells his daughter as a child-bride to an Arab named Yahya Mohammed al-Sageih for Rs. 6000.”

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