subs. phr. (old).—A woman separated from her husband: cf. GRASS-WIDOW.
1725. N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 136. They should see you divorced from your husband—a widow, nay, to live (a WIDOW BEWITCHED) worse than a widow; for widows may marry again.
1863. GASKELL, Sylvia’s Lovers, xxxix. Who’d ha’ thought of yo’r husband … makin’ a moonlight flittin’, and leavin’ yo’ to be a WIDOW BEWITCHED?
