单词 | widow woman |
释义 | > as lemmaswidow woman widow woman n. in later use chiefly archaic or regional ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow widowOE lavec1325 widow woman1340 relictc1460 widow lady1525 widowess1596 maid-widow1655 feme sole1714 veuve1766 ace of spades1811 sod widow1927 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 226 (MED) Zaynte pauel wyþ-nimþ þe yonge wyfmen wodewen [c1450 Bk. Vices & Virtues wommen widowes]. 1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) ii. lxxiii. f. clxx/1 A noble matrone a wedowe woman was wrothe & tormented of the multytude of ye ten chyldren that she had. 1672 L. Howard Looking-glass for Baptists 8 This Woodman took to Wife, an honest sober widdow Woman in Dover. 1792 J. Byng Diary 9 June in Torrington Diaries (1936) III. 94 Stay—I think it is a widow-woman. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 100 As I say, 'tis a widow-woman, and she had money, it seems—fifty poun' a year or so. 1908 Woman's Work in Far East Sept. 138/2 A Chinese widow woman of Wai-ki-ki. 2006 A. M. Foley Having my Say ii. 10 A widow-woman, Nellie Willey, lived with her. < as lemmas |
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