fiancé / fiancée

Definition

A person engaged to be married; fiancé is masculine and fiancée feminine.

From French fiancé / fiancée.

Merriam-Webster dates English fiancé to 1838 and fiancée to 1835.

She introduced her fiancé; he introduced his fiancée.

fiancé; fiancée

1838 (fiancé); 1835 (fiancée)

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