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Widow’s weeds. (Anglo-Saxon, wæd, a garment.) There are the compounds wæd-bréc (breeches or garment for the breech), wædless (naked or without clothing), and so on. Spenser speaks of
“A goodly lady clad in hunter’s weed.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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