Meanings
noungrass widowhood (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state of being a grass widow.
His inconsolable better half has to spend the whole of her time during this distressing grass-widowhood here.
2007, Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 17
Translations
Dutch groen weduwschap
- groen weduwschapstate of being a grass widow
German Strohwitwenschaft
- Strohwitwenschaftstate of being a grass widow
Hungarian szalmaözvegység
- szalmaözvegységstate of being a grass widow
Swedish gräsänkestånd
- gräsänkeståndstate of being a grass widow
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