A widow’s weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up on the outside of a mansion: both supposed to indicate that the dolorous widow wants a male comforter.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
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