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widow's walk definition

☆ widow's walk

a platform with a rail around it, built onto the roof of some New England houses, as along the coast, formerly for observing ships at sea

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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