merry widow

Origin

merry widow

noun
a woman's undergarment consisting of a strapless brassiere and short corset with attached garters.
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Merry widow is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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Word Origin & History

Merry Widow
1907, from the Eng. title of Franz Lehar's operetta "Die Lustige Witwe" (1905). "The Lusty Widow" would have been more literal, but would have given the wrong impression in Eng. Meaning "a type of wide-brimmed hat" (popularized in the play) is attested from 1908.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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