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mail-order bride Slang 
a wife courted by correspondence, as through a matrimonial agency.
- 1958 Some of the women were "mail order" wives and appeared to be quite content with their choice.
- 1962 Some of them were mail-order brides who answered advertisements inserted by ranchers in the lonely hearts columns of eastern newspapers.
- 1965 Only with the coming of the women, many of them mail-order brides, did the amenities of civilization begin to appear.
- 1958 Some of the women were "mail order" wives and appeared to be quite content with their choice.