widow's walk

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A raised platform on the roof of a house, especially one on a coastal house originally used for viewing the arrival of shipping US

词形变化

widow's walks plural

词源

Apparently in reference to the women who would watch for their husbands to return from the sea, but would sometimes learn that they had been killed.
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