widow woman
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of widow woman
First recorded in 1605–15
Example Sentences
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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
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
“You got that widow woman interested,” he laughed.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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