mourning dress
Black funeral garb
Mourning dress is clothing worn to signal grief after a death.
In Western tradition, this typically means black garments, though customs vary by culture and era.
Victorian mourning dress followed elaborate rules—widows wore full black for years, gradually introducing grays and purples.
Today the term appears mainly in historical contexts: The funeral guests arrived in mourning dress.
- widow's weedsBereaved woman's black garments
- black veilDark face covering for grief
- wakesBecomes conscious again
- lace trimDecorative netted edging
- jet beadsGlossy dark jewelry pieces
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