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grass widow

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a grass widow (humorous)
a woman who spends a lot of time apart from her husband, often because he is working in another place. 'I hear Steve's in Florida again.' 'Yes, I've become a grass widow ever since he's had this new job.'
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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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