单词 | mourning weeds |
释义 | > as lemmasmourning weeds mourning weeds n. the clothes worn during mourning; also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > widow's clothes weedsa1413 widow's weeds1578 mourning weeds1594 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. 1343 (MED) Afftir..Cam gret noumbre..of Iacobis hih kynreede..Lik folk dismaied, clad in moornyng weede. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 70 Haile Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds . View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶4 An afflicted Widow in her Mourning-Weeds. 1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) xxv. 205 I was like a woman who has been sewing mourning weeds all day. < as lemmas |
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