widow woman

Historical Examples of widow woman

• The boy said that she was a widow-woman, who had got no husband, because he was dead.

  Wessex Tales

  Thomas Hardy

• My father was a hind on the Milton farm, and my mother is aye loot keep the house, now that shes a widow-woman.

  Merkland

  Mrs. Oliphant

• "I wish I was like Cousin Leonora, born a widow-woman," she remarked, regarding the doubtful future askance.

  The Storm Centre

  Charles Egbert Craddock

• Mrs. Treloar was a widow-woman with a bit of property—just comfortable, as times go.

  Cornish Saints and Sinners

  J. Henry Harris

• Widow-woman and widow-man; are used for widow and widower, especially in Ulster: but widow-woman is heard everywhere.

  English As We Speak It in Ireland

  P. W. Joyce