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/græs wˈɪdoʊ/ Listen

Grass widow

noun

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

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"Grass widow" Quotes from Famous Books

... up, and an ex-grass widow is keeping him in order now. I don't go much on grass widows, but I give her credit for doing a pretty good job. She's got Jack so tame that he eats out of her hand, and so well trained that he don't allow strangers to ...

— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer

... women, a kind of a grass widow, Mrs. Plosell, had attracted Gus Carline, and when he came home from her house, he was always drunk. When Nelia remonstrated, he was ugly. He had thrown her down and gone back to the grass widow's ...

— The River Prophet • Raymond S. Spears

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