Black clothes worn as an expression of sorrow when someone dies.
neither she nor her sister were wearing mourning clothes
Example sentencesExamples
- In one week, Elizabeth would throw off her black mourning clothes into the more subtle hues of gray, lilac and dove - colors of the second mourning.
- In her mourning clothes she shows her status as a widow to the outside world.
- Mourning clothes were a family's outward display of their inner feelings.
- He wore mourning clothes for the rest of his life.
- Even after thirteen years, she still wore sombre mourning clothes.
- It was a young girl wearing mourning clothes.
- I was still in mourning clothes.
- The ranks and degrees of the relatives were distinguished by the different mourning clothes which they wore at funeral ceremonies.
- Mourning clothes—along with other facets of grief—were highly regimented in Victorian England and nineteenth-century America.
- After the body is enclosed in the casket, the members of the family put on mourning clothes.
- Every time somebody dies in the village, the villagers will write down their wishes on pieces of white cloth cut from their mourning clothes.
- She asked her aunt to assist her in getting some mourning clothes.