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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- A railed, rooftop platform typically on a coastal house, originally designed to observe vessels at sea.
–noun
Wiktionary (1 definition)
- A raised platform on the roof of a house, especially one on a coastal house originally used for viewing the arrival of shipping
–noun
WordNet (1 definition)
- A lookout atop a coastal house.
–noun
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- I gave up and reflected with genuine pleasure on the image of the handsome old frame house with its widow's walk and the wide veranda overlooking the beautiful and treacherous rocks of Gloucester's coast.—Working Murder
- He had to cross a side street and walk another block before coming to the end of the sloping walkway, standing there, gazing at the huge house: twenty-foot-high portico, six fluted columns, widow's walk railing at the roof line, huge black shutters at the tall windows.—Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
- A widow's walk skimmed along the roofline overlooking the inlet behind the house.—Forbidden Enchantment
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