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picture brides

picture brides is the plural of picture bride.

Meaning of picture bride

Noun

picture bride (plural picture brides)

  1. (early 20th century Japanese immigrants in the US) A bride chosen solely on the basis of a photograph provided by an intermediary

Questions about picture brides

What is picture brides the plural of?
Picture brides is the plural of picture bride.

Words near picture brides in the dictionary

  1. picture book
  2. picture books
  3. picture box
  4. picture boxes
  5. picture bride
  6. picture brides
  7. picture card
  8. picture cards
  9. picture day
  10. picture days
  11. picture desk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picture brides (page history and authors); picture bride (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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