newly married woman

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Instead, National Geographic’s “A Small Light” focuses on a young, newly married woman who helped hide Frank and who provided food and other necessities at great risk.

From Seattle Times • May 1, 2023

I discovered that a man may not enter a house where a woman has recently given birth, and that a newly married woman would not enter the kraal of her new home without elaborate ceremony.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

For pure spite and ill-nature, a newly married woman beats the devil.”

From A Singer from the Sea by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

A newly married woman, among the Grusians, must not speak to her husband's father, mother, or brothers until she has borne a child.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

According to Cotgrave, the morning-song to a newly married woman was called the “hunt’s up.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger