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Meanings of mourning dress in anglès
Distinctive dress worn after bereavement; conventional or ceremonial manifestation of sorrow.
Synonyms
Examples for "mourning"
Examples for "mourning"
1
Iran announced three days of public mourning in the province, IRNA said.
2
Russia declared Monday a day of national mourning for the crash victims.
3
Sometimes too much lightness: The young boys' mourning never really is addressed.
4
A second New Zealand family is in mourning after the Norwegian massacre.
5
The government declared a day of mourning on Thursday for the victims.
1
She first puts on the bridal dress, and after this the widow's weeds.
2
She was still youthful and beautiful and out of widow's weeds.
3
The mother wears widow's weeds, and has evidently arrived at the 'melancholy days.'
4
Poor Lucia's widow's weeds of five weeks were no obstacle to Mrs. Reilly.
5
At length the coachman, opening the door, handed out a lady in widow's weeds.
Usage of mourning dress in anglès
1
The tall figure in its deep mourning dress silenced them for the moment.
2
One mourning dress would be loaned from house to house as disaster came.
3
On that evening, at Wharton, Emily still wore her mourning dress.
4
Lady Earle had laid aside her mourning dress, and sat anxiously awaiting her son.
5
Marjorie's pale face and mourning dress had touched him deeply.
6
They will think that I went away in my mourning dress, which they will miss.
7
And Marianna in her mourning dress stared before her.
8
He brought me, as a present, a complete mourning dress, a curiosity we most valued.
9
Syrinx stood up, smoothing down her black mourning dress.
10
Mademoiselle regarded attentively the altered features of the King and his mourning dress, novel to her.
11
The poor child had on a mourning dress, but I was not aware you sent it.
12
You would hardly recognize the immature girl in that gentle, sweet-faced lady in her dark mourning dress.
13
Presently he observed the deep mourning dress.
14
I remember well how your pale face and mourning dress touched my heart, and waked my sympathies.
15
In their mourning dress, mother and daughter went into a nearby coffee shop and ordered iced tea.
16
The mourning dress is worn for Genoa!