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Grass widow   /græs wˈɪdoʊ/   Listen
Grass widow

noun
1.
A divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband.  Synonym: divorcee.






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"Grass widow" Quotes from Famous Books



... somewhat too harsh and Mr. Fitzgerald's considerably too indulgent judgment on it will lie, it seems to me, decidedly nearer to the former than to the latter's extreme. This episode of violently sentimental philandering with an Indian "grass widow" was, in any case, an extremely unlovely passage in Sterne's life. On the best and most charitable view of it, the flirtation, pursued in the way it was, and to the lengths to which it was carried, must be held to convict the elderly lover of the most ...
— Sterne • H.D. Traill



Words linked to "Grass widow" :   woman, Simpson, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Wallis Warfield Windsor, adult female, divorcee, Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson



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