widow woman

noun

, Older Use.

1. a widow.

widow woman

noun

1. See widow
   archaic.
   another term for widow

Word History and Origins

Origin of widow woman¹

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

"There is something toward to-day," said a decent widow woman who lived in the Knigstrasse to her neighbour.

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Leaving Tewkesbury, we passed to Warwick, where in the evening we had a meeting with many sober people at a widow-woman's house.

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It was for a charity indeed I bought it from the widow woman at Kiltartan Cross.

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I was boarding at that time with a poor widow-woman, and one night I asked her about Rachel.

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This lowly and lonely domicile was then occupied by a widow woman of the name of Margaret Grahame.

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