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grass widow

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grass widow
a woman abandoned by her husband. (The origin of this is not clear.) Jane's husband isn't dead, but she's a widow just the same—a grass widow. Bill ran off and left Mary a grass widow.
See also: grass, widow


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He varies the settings, situations and characters with great skill and style such as the comic "A Bad Night," the nourishing "A Grass Widow," the romantic "Uncle Wellington's Wives" and the tragic "Her Virginia Mammy.
44) Because Hilderbrand traveled for his work as a steamfitter, Eliza apparently experienced life as a grass widow more than once.
Grace (played with saucy humor by Morgan Lindsey Tachco), who calls herself a grass widow, runs the restaurant with the help of Elma, a high school student (an appealing Georgia Lange).
 
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