A black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning.
1She first puts on the bridal dress, and after this the widow's weeds.
2She was still youthful and beautiful and out of widow's weeds.
3The mother wears widow's weeds, and has evidently arrived at the 'melancholy days.'
4Poor Lucia's widow's weeds of five weeks were no obstacle to Mrs. Reilly.
5At length the coachman, opening the door, handed out a lady in widow's weeds.
6My sorrows I can never overcome; my widow's weeds I shall never lay aside.
7She looked about fifty years of age, and was dressed in rusty widow's weeds.
8She was dressed in widow's weeds, and she had every right to wear them.
9He still carried the widow's weeds rolled into a bundle.
10She had never as yet packed up her widow's weeds.
11She put on widow's weeds, which she never took off.
12I'm going to get rid of these uncomfortable widow's weeds.
13She would tear off her widow's weeds and deck herself in the flower of youth.
14The cab contained a lady in deep widow's weeds.
15She faithfully kept her vow and adopted widow's weeds for the remainder of her life.
16Lady Clavering was a mass of ill-arranged widow's weeds.
Translations for widow's weeds