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See: disconsolate MOURNING. This word has several significations. 1. It is the apparel worn at
funerals, and for a time afterwards, in order to manifest grief for the
death of some one, and to honor his memory. 2. The expenses paid for such
apparel.
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| The 1880s and 1890s witnessed dramatic changes in philanthropy, trade unionism, and the funeral industry, all of which affected newsboys' mourning rituals. Her strong discussion of lament in the early histories affirms the dramatic use of women's mourning rituals, an exploration which should encourage others to rethink the ways rituals intersect with dramatic literature. Jeffrey Steele describes the mourning rituals that women were expected to know for the frequent home funerals in antebellum America. |
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