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The bride, dressed in a white satin robe with rollers in her hair, reacted emotionally and placed her head in her hands before moving closer to the picture.—Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025 The canine was captured jumping away in shock at the mere sight of a decorative corpse-bride statue, a popular Halloween emblem, in a short clip later shared to TikTok by their owner under @liv_hinkley.—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 The average bride won’t come anywhere close to matching the costs of Selena Gomez’s, Lauren Sánchez’s, and Nina Agdal’s respective weddings, but that isn’t deterring her from amping up her wedding plans.—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025 But these motifs—doglike tricksters, a figure visible on the moon, a man who performs difficult tasks to win a bride—are all frustratingly generic.—Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bride
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Old English brȳd; akin to Old High German brūt bride
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of bride was
before the 12th century
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