widow's weeds

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Mourning clothes of a peculiar fashion, denoting her state. A grass widow; a discarded mistress. a widow bewitched; a woman whose husband is abroad, and said, but not certainly known, to be dead.

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