widowman

1) An early dialect word for a man whose wife had died.

1550 Thomas Barrett, Cromwell, widueman. The only example noted is from Nottinghamshire where widow-woman also occurred: 1536 Isabell Demoke, Newark wedowoman .

places Newark
dates 1536 1550

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