OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 55095

child bride

Meanings (ES + gloss)
novia menor de edad • novia niña
A very young bride, usually coerced or pressured into nuptials with a much older man, as practiced in some cultures.
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
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