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widow's weeds |
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widow's weeds Noun, pl Old-fashioned the black mourning clothes traditionally worn by a widow [from Old English wǣd a band worn in mourning]
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In front of the inn, she met a woman wearing widow's weeds, and upon questioning her, learned that she was looking for a cook. Graham, and she is in mourning - not widow's weeds, but slightish mourning - and she is quite young, they say, - not above five or six and twenty, - but so reserved In a spacious drawing-room at the north side of the college she found her mother, a slight woman in widow's weeds, with faded brown hair, and tearful eyes. |
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