second mourning
English
Noun
second mourning (uncountable)
- (obsolete) A style of dress dictated by etiquette to be allowable after strict mourning dress is no longer required. [17th–19th c.]
- 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 237:
- I drest myself in my second-mourning suit in which I had been powdered […].
- 1763, James Boswell, in Gordon Turnbull (ed.), London Journal 1762–1763, Penguin 2014, p. 237: