| 单词 | widow friend |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswidow friend a. Appositive, as widow cook, widow friend, widow queen, etc. [In some appositive uses probably influenced by adjectival uses in Latin and the Romance languages.] ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow pure widowhood1427 vowess1506 king's widow1540 widow1561 Merry Widowc1567 widow mother1582 virgin widowa1644 war widow1866 1561 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Hercules Furens ii. sig. D Not hym subdewde who euer lyes in bedde vnmatcht at nyghtThe wyddowe queene [sc. Hippolyta; L. regina..vidua] of them that toke to Thermodont their flyght. 1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 119 He commanded that morning the House of a widdow Baker to be burnt. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. xi. 158 Who has the Paternal Power whilst the Widdow queen is with Child? 1711 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Nov. (1948) II. 407 The widow duchess will not stand to the will. 1831 G. Ross tr. F. Bulgarin Ivan Vejeeghen I. ii. 33 On the death of my parents, I was taken home by a widow-aunt of mine. 1856 W. E. Aytoun Bothwell i. 13 To claim the hand of Scotland's Queen, The widow-child of France. 1939 J. Grenfell Let. 20 Feb. in Darling Ma (1989) 103 Winnie, my widow-cook, being herself the mother of two, thinks she knows more than Nanny about what he should eat. 1974 Off Our Backs 4 24/2 My mother used to tell me with great glee how her widow friends rejoiced in their freedom now their husbands were dead. 1978 Drama Rev. 22 85 These were the disciples of the widow-witch Chalonarong. < as lemmas |
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