widow's weeds

(definition) by Vulgar Tongue 1811 Tue May 03 2005 at 19:52:38
widow's weeds

Mourning clothes of a peculiar fashion, denoting her state.

A grass widow ; a discarded mistress.

A widow bewitched ; a woman whose husband is abroad, and said, but not certainly known, to be dead.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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