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hell brides

hell brides is the plural of hell bride.

Meaning of hell bride

Noun

hell bride (plural hell brides)

  1. (literary) A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.
    • Grendel's mother,
      monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 42

Questions about hell brides

What is hell brides the plural of?
Hell brides is the plural of hell bride.

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