The phrase "grass widow" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a woman whose partner is away for an extended period, often due to work or military service.
Example: "After her husband was deployed overseas, she became a grass widow, managing the household on her own."
Alternatives: "military spouse" or "partner of a deployed service member."
With Grass Widow, No Bra and DJ JD Samson.
NATE CHINEN GRASS WIDOW "Internal Logic" (HLR) The women in the San Francisco trio Grass Widow sing in clear and pretty harmonies over buzzing, nettlesome music — thin, staccato, slightly dissonant.
That's a really good idea, but Grass Widow has stretched it about as far as it can go.
If you don't know the term "grass widow," for a divorced or abandoned woman, Purdy will correct that omission.
The duo will go on a US tour with Grass Widow in September and also record a 7" record there.
Her husband, a failed real estate developer, walks out, leaving Mildred a grass widow with no income besides the money she makes baking pies for neighbors.
Many of Trevor's earlier stories, like "Miss Smith," "Hotel of the Idle Moon" or "The Grass Widows," are resourceful at contriving such meanness, in moments of hideous embarrassment and unpleasantness.
"I need to give it some thought, because the Vendee is two races, the first to the start line, the second to the finish," he says with a look in his eyes that can alarm wives who do not want to be grass widows.
But the album's overriding infatuation is with elaborate, era-hopping arrangements: ba-ba-ba vocal harmonies bouncing all around "Grass Widows," brawling Charles Mingus horns in "Lovers' Revolution," Philadelphia soul strings atop Crosby, Stills and Nash folk-pop in "Grace for Saints and Ramblers" (which has the grammatically hapless refrain, "It all came down to you and I").
Everything about him is provisional: the difficult, dirty jobs (selling live birds at the market, scrubbing shirts in a laundry's "dungeon," butchering meat with "the flat metal smell of decay") and the lonely wives he sleeps with, "grass widows" whose husbands are off working at farms in the Central Valley.
German president Joachim Gauck led the tributes, offering his condolences to the writer's widow Ute Grass.
