Definition of "grass widow" []

• A woman who is divorced or separated from her husband. (noun)
• A woman whose husband is temporarily absent. (noun)
• An abandoned mistress. (noun)
• The mother of a child born out of wedlock. (noun)

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• "Or Mrs. Brown, detecting her husband, Mr. Brown, in lamentable proceedings with a neighbor, the grass widow Kraus, forgives him and continues to be true to him in consideration of her children, Fred, Pansy and Little Fern."