English Explanatory Dictionary

widow's walk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A raised platform on the roof of a house, especially one on a coastal house originally used for viewing the arrival of shipping

Word forms

widow's walk widow's walks

Etymology

Apparently in reference to the women who would watch for their husbands to return from the sea, but would sometimes learn that they had been killed.

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