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grass widows

grass widows is the plural of grass widow.

Meaning of grass widow

Noun

grass widow (plural grass widows)

  1. A married woman whose spouse is away.
    • "Can't help it. I'm a lone, lorn grass-widow, dear, but I will not sleep in my stays."1889, Rudyard Kipling, “A Second-rate Woman”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 115
  2. (obsolete) An unmarried woman who has had premarital sexual relations; a former mistress.

Questions about grass widows

What is grass widows the plural of?
Grass widows is the plural of grass widow.

Words near grass widows in the dictionary

  1. grass warblers
  2. grass widow
  3. grass widower
  4. grass widowers
  5. grass widowhood
  6. grass widows
  7. grass-bird
  8. grass-cock
  9. grass-cocks
  10. grass-comber
  11. grass-combers

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