viduous

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  1. Widowed. [Rare.] She gone, and her viduous mansion, your heart, to let, her successor the new occupant … finds her miniature. Thackeray, Newcomes, lxvi.

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  • To a lot till I use "viduous," —  Something Else Again
  • With some men, she gone, and her viduous mansion your heart to let, her successor, the new occupant, poking in all the drawers and corners, and cupboards of the tenement, finds her miniature and some of her dusty old letters hidden away somewhere, and says -- Was this the face he admired so? —  The Newcomes
 

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  1. from Latin viduus, widowed, bereft: see widow.
 

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