war widow in English
noun
1
a woman (or man) whose spouse has been killed in war.
In her letter, Mrs Goodrick said: ‘I am a still-grieving war widow whose husband was mown down by a German Panzer division in the Normandy landings in June, 1944.’
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1. Or maybe St. Cloud, Minnesota, where the crazed war widow threw her baby down a well
2. Dorothy, a war widow, is a painfully uptight figure who Busies herself with household affairs and who even regards wearing a pinny in front of visitors as a breach of decorum