外がい人じん妻づま

noun

foreign wife

Dated term for a wife who is a foreigner, typically from a Western country. Often carries a nuance of exoticism or otherness from a Japanese perspective. Modern usage is rare and may be considered insensitive.

• 彼かれは外がい人じん妻づまをもらったと近きん所じょで噂うわさになった。

  It was rumored in the neighborhood that he took a foreign wife.