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noun 
  1. Something which takes the lives of men; a hazard that affects mostly men or is specific for some trade, occupied mostly by men.
What is a woman that you forsake her,
And the hearth-fire and the home-acre,
To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
:" :w:Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, "Harp Song of the Dane Women"
Translations: 
  • Dutch: weduwenmaker
  • German: WitwenMacher?, macher
    (trans-mid)

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