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a woman whose husband is temporarily absent (a mistress is one who is enjoyed on a temporary straw-mattress or actually in/on the grass, rather than in the feather-filled matrimonial bed; ‘widow' is ironic, although it denotes that her ‘husband' has gone  wordwizard.com) | |||