While the definitions can vary regionally, a grass widow can be a woman whose husband is absent for long periods of time, a woman who is completely separated from her husband, or a woman who was never married to a now absent boyfriend (or father of her child).
It does not mean her husband is dead.
And it does not mean she was married to a now-deceased man whose last name was Grass.
My grandmother referred to a divorced woman as a "grass widow."
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