widow woman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of widow woman
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
“We thought it best,” the widow woman said.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
That widow woman could have started a school in there, the way I understood it.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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