widow woman

American  

noun

Older Use.

1. a widow.

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widow woman British  

noun

1. archaic another term for widow

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Etymology

Origin of widow woman

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

Widowed, Mrs. White started a pious, shouting, camp-meeting community in New Jersey, named it Zarephath after the place where the "widow woman" sustained Elijah.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's a respectable widow woman for you, and a friend o' mine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman.

From Time Magazine Archive

“We thought it best,” the widow woman said.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill

It turned out his aunt was a widow woman with ten children, living in a nasty, rundown old cabin on a turkey farm where you couldn’t get to the privy without stepping in turkey mess.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns