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has gloss | eng: A widows walk (or roofwalk) is a railed rooftop platform often with a small enclosed cupola often found on 19th century North American houses. A popular romantic myth holds that the platform was used to observe vessels at sea. The name comes from the wives of mariners, who would watch for their spouses return, often in vain as the ocean took the lives of the mariners, leaving the women as widows. |
lexicalization | eng: widow's walk |
lexicalization | eng: Widows walk |
instance of | (noun) a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building roof |
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has gloss | nld: Een widow's walk is een platform op een gedeelte van het dak dat omzoomd is met een hekje, met daarbinnen vaak een kleine ingesloten koepel. Dit dakelement wordt vaak aangetroffen op 19e eeuwse Noord-Amerikaanse huizen. |
lexicalization | nld: widow's walk |
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media:img | Widow's Walk.jpg |
media:img | Widows Walk Gaithersburg.jpg |
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