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widow 1. a woman who has survived her husband, esp one who has not remarried 2. (in some card games) an additional hand or set of cards exposed on the table |
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Aunt Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. The widow was as complete a contrast to her third bridegroom, in everything but age, as can well be conceived. They who knew the Maypole story, and could remember what the widow was, before her husband's and his master's murder, understood it well. |
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