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hell bride en · NOUN
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(literary) A female monster or demon; a hag, ogress, harpy or the like.
While we moviegoers are nothing but grateful to Gaiman and Avery for their part in bringing us Ms. Jolie as the serpentine and mostly-naked hell-bride, there are scores of scholars out there who're peeved[.]
2007 November 14, L33T, page 75, column 1:Grendel's mother,
monstrous hell-bride, brooded on her wrongs.
1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 42:I knew then, I'd left too late
to flee the curse, the harrowing
rumours of a hag, a hell-bride,
instead of a warrior queen[.]
2024, Lindy Ryan, Mother Knows Best: Tales of Homemade Horror, Black Spot Books:
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