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单词 widow's cap
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widow's cap

noun Australian
A cap worn by an Aboriginal woman as part of a mourning ritual, made from gypsum paste: when a widow’s term of mourning was over, she would take the widow’s cap and place it on the grave of her husband...
  • The skull of one skeleton from the Lake Victoria site was adorned with a gypsum 'widow's cap'.
  • She puts on her widow's cap, which, as it wears out, has to be renewed for many months.
  • A complete specimen of a widow's cap resembles the modern crash helmet worn by motor cyclists and may be from half an inch to one inch thick.
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