英语词汇“widow's weeds”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

widow's weeds

plural noun

Black clothes worn by a widow in mourning.Francesca Hanley not dressed in widow's weeds, and her poor husband not even dead three months!...

For you, the nagapada necklace; for me, widow's weeds.
But then, across a crowded room, he sees Claire de Cintré, a pale moon in widow's weeds whose first marriage was so dreadful that she can't bear to be touched.

Origin

Early 18th century (earlier as mourning weeds): weeds (obsolete in the general sense 'garments') is from Old English wǣd(e), of Germanic origin.

单词	widow's weeds
释义	widow's weeds plural noun Black clothes worn by a widow in mourning.Francesca Hanley not dressed in widow's weeds, and her poor husband not even dead three months!... For you, the nagapada necklace; for me, widow's weeds. But then, across a crowded room, he sees Claire de Cintré, a pale moon in widow's weeds whose first marriage was so dreadful that she can't bear to be touched. Origin Early 18th century (earlier as mourning weeds): weeds (obsolete in the general sense 'garments') is from Old English wǣd(e), of Germanic origin.
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