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Widow's weeds

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  1. 1
    black garments worn by widows in mourning dated, plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning wordnet
  3. 3
    a stamp bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing mourning clothes plural, plural-only

Etymology

From (now) fossil word weeds (“garments, esp. mourning garments”), from Old English wǣd (“garment”).

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