rich widow

collocation in English

meaningsofrichandwidow

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rich
adjective
uk
/rɪtʃ/us
/rɪtʃ/
having a lot of money or ...
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widow
noun[C]
uk
/ˈwɪd.əʊ/us
/ˈwɪd.oʊ/
a woman whose husband or wife has died and who has not ...
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(Definition ofrichandwidowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The four women included relativelyrichwidowtenants.
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Whitworth's father sold the principal family estate, leaving his son to search for arichwidow, which he did successfully.
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Arichwidowflirts with a merchant, is discovered by her lover, faints, and is revived by the flutist's music.
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Eller was the foreman of a factory owned by arichwidow.
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A stagecoach carrying arichwidowhome to her family's hacienda.
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She presents him with a plan to repair his decayed fortunes: he should marry arichwidow.
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There are rich widows, well-off widows, poor widows and almost destitute widows.
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There are very rich widows, albeit very few of them, and there are a great number of very poor widows.
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I sincerely hope that your proposal to enable poor spinsters like myself to be put in the same position as rich widows will be crowned with success.
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In the process, three gold diggers connive their way into the boys' room, under the guise that they are three rich widows looking to remarry.
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