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bridehood
n. The state or condition of being a bride.
Usage examples of "bridehood".
Picture, then, the pride with which, one early day of her new bridehood, she drove to the Palace of St Cloud in the gorgeous Borghese State carriage, behind six horses, and with an escort of torch-bearers, to pay a formal call on her sister-in-law, Josephine, Empress-to-be.
I am a little ashamed to write of my shifts and contrivances to save my dignity, but perhaps if I had not been a bride, and shorn of all the glories of bridehood through Mrs.
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.