widow's weeds
Black grieving clothes
Widow's weeds are the black mourning clothes traditionally worn by a widow after her husband's death.
The term is old-fashioned, evoking Victorian-era customs when widows dressed in black for extended periods: She appeared at the funeral in widow's weeds.
Weeds here comes from an old word for garments, not plants.
- blackDarkest possible hue
- black veilDark face covering for grief
- veilFabric that obscures
- bonnetHat secured under chin
- mourning dressClothing for bereavement
lace · dress · deep mourning · bombazine · jet · crepe · weeper · mourning period · gloves · mourning jewelry · bereavement · grief · sorrow · shroud · loss · remembrance · brooch · shawl
- old customsarranged marriage, arranged marriages, dowry, betrothal, courtship rituals
- mourningfuneral, burial, grief, bereavement, wake
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- funeral ritesfuneral, bury, burial, funeral mass, burial rites
- funeral clothburial shroud, funeral shroud, death shroud, shroud, white shroud
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