hell bride
noun1
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:
- 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 23, L33T, page 75, column 1:
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- 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: