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Bride-to-be   /braɪd-tu-bi/   Listen
Bride-to-be

noun
1.
A woman who is engaged to be married.  Synonym: fiancee.






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"Bride-to-be" Quotes from Famous Books



... renounced the world, the flesh and the devil, knowing them only from pictures in magazines and Sunday supplements; such a one may find that he has still some need of fasting and praying. The particular temptation which overcame me was this picture of the bride-to-be. I wanted to see her, and I went and stood for hours in a crowd of curious women, and saw the wedding party enter the great Fifth Avenue Church, and discovered that my Sylvia's hair was golden, and her eyes a strange and wonderful red-brown. And ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair

... |O'Brien and Hugh D. Cotton. | | | |Following the wedding ceremony there will be a | |reception in the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton. The | |engagement of Miss Ryer and Mr. Nixon was announced | |last autumn. The bride-to-be has passed the greater | |part of the last two winters in New York with her | |mother and during the summer season has been | |identified with the colony in Newport, R. ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer

... Among my other activities, I wired the parlor for electric light. The bride-to-be expects some electroliers as wedding ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... is known, immediately the friends of the bride-to-be begin to think of showers for her. One friend or a group of friends or her club may be hostesses ...
— Entertaining Made Easy • Emily Rose Burt

... to which are invited only the immediate family and intimate friends. The reason may be simply the desire for a small, quiet affair or it may be a recent bereavement. The bride-to-be generally writes these invitations. The form ...
— How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence • Mary Owens Crowther



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