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merry widow

merry widow noun: a strapless corselet with long garters and half cups for the breasts.

Noun (1)

merry widow (plural merry widows)

  1. A strapless corselet with long garters and half cups for the breasts.
  2. (UK, slang) Veuve Clicquot champagne.

Noun (2) capitalized: Merry Widow

Merry Widow (plural Merry Widows)

  1. (trademark) Alternative letter-case form of merry widow.

Forms of merry widow

pluralmerry widows
alternative formMerry Widow
pluralMerry Widows

Origin of merry widow

(corselet): Originally a 1952 trademark of the Warner's lingerie company for a product eponymous of that year film The Merry Widow, itself based on the 1905 homonymous operetta by Franz Lehár.

Questions about merry widow

What does merry widow mean?
Merry widow means a strapless corselet with long garters and half cups for the breasts.
What part of speech is merry widow?
Merry widow is a noun.
What is the plural of merry widow?
The plural of merry widow is merry widows.

Words near merry widow in the dictionary

  1. merry dancers
  2. merry dances
  3. Merry Hill
  4. Merry Lees
  5. merry men
  6. merry widow
  7. merry widows
  8. merry Xmas
  9. merry-andrew
  10. merry-andrews
  11. merry-go-around

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merry widow (page history and authors); Merry Widow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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