[F. fiancé, fiancée, pa. pple. f. fiancer to betroth.] A betrothed person.
1853. Ld. Houghton, in Life (1891), I. xi. 400. Nobody much here except Clough and his fiancée, a clever-looking girl.
1864. London Society, VI. 58/1–2. The bride elect, the fiancé, the trousseau, the whole conern, she took under her most special charge.
1885. Graphic, 3 Jan., 10/2. The fiancé, Prince Henry.
1890. Besant, Demoniac, ii. 26. All that summer he stayed in London. He would not trust himself to see his fiancée, Elinor Thanet.
