bridehood

Some people are so concerned about a fairy-princess idea of bridehood that lasts for maybe two rosey weeks plus the honeymoon after the wedding, that they would want to keep any number of current and future couples from standing up and professing their love?

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Into that holocaust had gone her youth, her illusions, her virginity, her bridehood, her wifely trust.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

It doesn't take long for the grass to grow over the graves of the dead; the dew forming upon the mounded turf is less like tears than like glistening jewels to deck the earth in the joyous time of her bridehood in the spring; the flight of birds over it and their little bursts of melody are eloquent of an ecstasy which does not remember.

Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912

"I shouldn't know myself in such miracles," said she, with a kind of gasp, her eyes very bright, and her cheeks pinker than they had been when she was suspected of bridehood.

Set in Silver 1901

Christina an irresistible offer; and she smiled to herself when she thought of Sophy's surprise, and of the many pretty little airs and conceits the state of bridehood would be sure to bring forth in her self-indulgent nature.

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Madame Vauban has certainly taken into account youth, bridehood, and the husband's wishes.

Floyd Grandon's Honor Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

As regarding her bridehood, in distinction either to her girlhood or her wifehood -- as being a line of plain demarcation between those two periods of a woman's life -- the milliner does do much to make her.

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848

Instructed, trained, to consider matrimony the sole aim, the end of their existence, it matters not to whom the Gordian knot is tied, so that the trousseau, wedding, and eclat of bridehood follow.

The Wedding Guest 1847

Rye had also never imagined that all the 12 candidates for bridehood would have the same face.

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As regarding her bridehood, in distinction either to her girlhood or wifehood — as being a line of plain demarcation between those two periods of a woman’s life — the milliner does do much to make her.

Framley Parsonage 2004