widow woman
a widow.
Origin of widow woman
1- Also called widow lady.
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How to use widow woman in a sentence
(I mean the widow lady's whiskered companion)—I saw him eat pease with the very knife with which he had dissected the duck!
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayA poor widow lady lived some distance beyond Mr. Duran's house.
Charles Duran | The Author of The WaldosI told 'im as the room was let to a widow lady in poor circumstances, and was he prepared to guarantee the rent of two rooms.
Workhouse Characters | Margaret Wynne NevinsonAt the close of the ceremony a dear little old widow lady, sitting in the front row, told us of her own boy.
The Romance of the Red Triangle | Arthur Keysall YappIn that position I saw her face plainly, and I knew it for the face of the young widow lady who was visiting at the house.
The Law and the Lady | Wilkie Collins
British Dictionary definitions for widow woman
archaic, or dialect another term for widow (def. 1)
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