widow woman


nounOlder Use.
  1. a widow.

Origin of widow woman

1
First recorded in 1605–15
  • 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 Thackeray
  • A poor widow lady lived some distance beyond Mr. Duran's house.

    Charles Duran | The Author of The Waldos
  • I 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 Nevinson
  • At 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 Yapp
  • In 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

widow woman

noun
  1. archaic, or dialect another term for widow (def. 1)

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