[LMB] "Grass Widow"

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In a message dated 5/6/2008 6:02:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jparish at siue.edu writes:

There's  an interesting article on the etymology of this phrase  at
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gra1.htm
(on-topic due to Fawn's  confusion over its meaning, in _Beguilement_).
(I will admit that I was not  familiar with the meaning Dag assigns it, but 
the
article clears that  up.)



M:
 
I was a little puzzled by this, too--I'd read old books in which  someone 
asked if a "widow" was "grass or sod" meaning whether her husband  just away, 
possibly even if she was divorced or separated from him, or if he was  dead.
 
Mary



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