Meaning of hell bride | Babel Free

Definitions

A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.

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Examples

“Grendel's mother, monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.”

“While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]”

“I knew then, I'd left too late to flee the curse, the harrowing rumours of a hag, a hell-bride, instead of a warrior queen[.]”

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