war widow

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The war correspondent and war widow stayed up late talking.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2023

Other countries still imposed limitations, such as property qualifications or the need to be a war widow in order to vote.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

A war widow has a 6-year-old son, and two men who want to marry her for Christmas.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019

In Merwyn, “a gray, bleak village” of lost souls, he finds a wife who thought she was a war widow and her veteran husband, who feels he might as well be dead.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2019

I've no doubt," he said, "she wants to pay it; but she's a war widow, Barbara, and she's hard up.

From Mr. Waddington of Wyck by Sinclair, May