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mourning cloak

noun

  1. an anglewing butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, widely distributed in Europe and North America, having velvety, dark-brown wings with purple spots and pale-yellow edges.


mourning cloak

noun

  1. the US name for Camberwell beauty
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of mourning cloak1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

George Prince was there, standing against the walls shrouded in his mourning cloak, watching the scene with alert, roving eyes.

In their habits they are quite similar to the caterpillars of the Mourning-cloak.

This was the mourning cloak, with me the first vernal butterfly.

I had made a mourning-cloak of the apron by tying it, hind part before, about my neck, whence it drooped to my heels.

The mourning cloak, the first butterfly to be seen in spring, has passed the winter in my "Slabsides."

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Mourning Becomes Electramourning dove