English Explanatory Dictionary

widow's weeds

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. black garments worn by widows in mourning
  2. a stamp bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing mourning clothes

Word forms

widow's weeds

Etymology

From (now) fossil word weeds (“garments, esp. mourning garments”), from Old English wǣd (“garment”).

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