half-mourning

It also became the Victorian colour for half-mourning.

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The costumes were stunning, particularly a lavendar and black dress that Victoria wore when she was in half-mourning.

Sunday Movie Review: The Young Victoria Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

The costumes were stunning, particularly a lavendar and black dress that Victoria wore when she was in half-mourning.

Archive 2009-12-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009

Deep mourning, for example, for a widow might be two years, followed by a period of half-mourning.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

Deep mourning, for example, for a widow might be two years, followed by a period of half-mourning.

Victorian Funerals and Mourning 2008

When he laid aside his black, his whiskers, too, went into a sort of half-mourning, and appeared in grey.

The Newcomes 2006

She went nimbly round and round the beds of anemones, tulips, jonquils, polyanthuses, and other old-fashioned flowers, looking a very charming figure in her half-mourning bonnet, and with an incomplete nosegay in her left hand.

Wessex Tales 2006

Caroline be married in half-mourning; I am sure that mother, could she know, would not wish it, and it is odd that Caroline should be so intractably persistent on this point, when she is usually so yielding.

A Changed Man 2006

He dresses in half-mourning always, and never wears any jewelry, but strictly shuns all society, and prefers uncivilized regions.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

And silent was that half-mourning dinner in the heat.

To Let 2004