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widow's weeds

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English

Syllables
wid-ow's weeds
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

black garments worn by widows in mourning

Dated

noun

a stamp bearing a portrait of Queen Victoria wearing mourning clothes

Etymology

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

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Synonyms

weeds

Questions

What does widow's weeds mean?
black garments worn by widows in mourning
Where does widow's weeds come from?
It is traced to Old English.

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