| 单词 | widow club |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswidow club b. Designating a group consisting or formed of widows, as widow club, widow society, etc. ΚΠ 1714 J. Addison Spectator No. 561. ¶1 A certain Female Cabal..who call themselves the Widow-Club. 1821 J. Wilks Christian Biogr. Dict. 89/2 The managers of the Widow Society had each a separate district; and Mrs. Graham, as first directress, had a general superintendance of the whole. 1839 I. Taylor Anc. Christianity I. 382 The widow-band, the appendage of a company of helpless women. 1999 K. Langello Cure 224 Between Meals-On-Wheels and the widow brigade, he had enough food to feed a football team. 2012 Daily Oklahoman (Nexis) 8 Aug. 17 a She was also a member of the Eastern Star and the Shriner's Widow Club. < as lemmas |
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