Definitions for half-mourning

half-mourning half mourning

Half-Mourning is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 966 anagrams from letters in half-mourning (-afghilmnnoru).

Definitions for half-mourning

noun

  1. a mourning garb less somber than deep mourning, usually following a period of deep mourning.
  2. the period during which it is worn.

Origin of half-mourning

First recorded in 1810-20

Examples for half-mourning

They wore thick veils, and Hilda was dressed in a kind of half-mourning.

Accordingly, when O'Grady returned at night to the Castle, he laughingly told me that the house was in half-mourning.

“Very nice of Miss Hutchins to go into half-mourning, Parkinson,” he remarked as they went along.

Irene certainly was peerless in her half-mourning, with her statuesque figure.

And remembering the reference to half-mourning, wondered whether it was expressed in the hound.

Its half-mourning still betokened that she had lost one who was very dear to her, but the black and white was a mockery.

And surely grey is what is known as 'half-mourning' too, is it not?

Then Lois came into the room, hatted and gloved, in half-mourning.

The clerk is a matron, and the proprietress a widow in half-mourning.

Nephew or niece—full mourning, one week; half-mourning, one week: total, two weeks.

Word Value for half-mourning
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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