half-mourning

(Clothing & Fashion) dark grey clothes worn by some during a period after full formal mourning

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She was loosely wrapped in a cashmere dressing-gown of gray-white, embroidered in half-mourning tints, and she wore slippers of the same hue.

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Waule having a white handkerchief partially unfolded in her hand--and both with faces in a sort of half-mourning purple; while Mrs.

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"There is a half-mourning dress from about 1885 which would have been worn after a year of mourning.

Cupboard find gave lecturer a frock shock; Clothing dating back to the 18th century has been discovered in a cupboard at a Birmingham art school. ALISON JONES reports

A period of "half-mourning" followed, during which time colour could be slowly reintroduced, with the widow gradually returning to some sort of social life.

Mourning dress; CHRISTOPHER PROUDLOVE REPORTS ON THE VICTORIAN MARK OF DEATH

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