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单词 mourning clothes
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Definition of mourning clothes in English:

mourning clothes

plural noun
  • Black clothes worn as an expression of sorrow when someone dies.

    neither she nor her sister were wearing mourning clothes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In one week, Elizabeth would throw off her black mourning clothes into the more subtle hues of gray, lilac and dove - colors of the second mourning.
    • In her mourning clothes she shows her status as a widow to the outside world.
    • Mourning clothes were a family's outward display of their inner feelings.
    • He wore mourning clothes for the rest of his life.
    • Even after thirteen years, she still wore sombre mourning clothes.
    • It was a young girl wearing mourning clothes.
    • I was still in mourning clothes.
    • The ranks and degrees of the relatives were distinguished by the different mourning clothes which they wore at funeral ceremonies.
    • Mourning clothes—along with other facets of grief—were highly regimented in Victorian England and nineteenth-century America.
    • After the body is enclosed in the casket, the members of the family put on mourning clothes.
    • Every time somebody dies in the village, the villagers will write down their wishes on pieces of white cloth cut from their mourning clothes.
    • She asked her aunt to assist her in getting some mourning clothes.
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