MOURNING

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Traducere în limba română

mourning I. substantiv

1. plângere, jelanie, bocire.

2. tristeţe, dezolare

3. doliu;

to go into mourning a pune doliu, a începe să poarte doliu;

in mourning în doliu.

mourning II. adjectiv

de doliu.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“I am sorry to observe you are in mourning, sir,” said Mrs. Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Miss Murdstone, who was busy at her writing-desk, which was covered with letters and papers, gave me her cold finger-nails, and asked me, in an iron whisper, if I had been measured for my mourning.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I left the scarcely-tasted breakfast, and went and rested my head on another table, in a corner of the little room, which Minnie hastily cleared, lest I should spot the mourning that was lying there with my tears.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The whole town is desolate. All the cars have the left rear wheel painted black as a mourning wreath and there's a persistent wail all night along the North Shore.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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