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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Widowed.

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  • With some men, she gone, and her viduous mansion your heart to let, her successor, the new occupant, poking in all the drawers and corners, and cupboards of the tenement, finds her miniature and some of her dusty old letters hidden away somewhere, and says — Was this the face he admired so?

    The Newcomes 2006

  • With some men, she gone, and her viduous mansion your heart to let, her successor, the new occupant, poking in all the drawers and corners, and cupboards of the tenement, finds her miniature and some of her dusty old letters hidden away somewhere, and says -- Was this the face he admired so?

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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  • adj., empty

    William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) uses this word to describe the heart as a "viduous mansion" for rent after the loved one is gone, going on to say that the new tenant finds a portrait of the first love hidden away somewhere within it.

    July 8, 2008