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[Ind] F. Marryat ‘Gup’ 101: There are always plenty of females on the hills, consequently the hills are dangerous to an idle man. There are the wives who can’t live with their husbands in the plains; the ‘grass-widows’ (or widows put out to grass), as they are vulgarly termed.
at grass widow, n.
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