half-mourning

It's perfectly acceptable for a young woman to wear half-mourning."

It also became the Victorian colour for half-mourning.

Fourteen hours and 46 minutes without a sun, and with a moon in half-mourning, may impel some people to curse the darkness.

The strongest of these is when Tony gives a French recipe (attributed to his ex-wife) for "chicken in half-mourning".

It is known for the Bresse Chicken demi-deuil, meaning in half-mourning, with black truffles placed under the skin.

The printed cotton fabrics used in the construction of the quilt are all of the type used for mourning dress (half-mourning) at the time.

The exhibition took place during a period of half-mourning requested by Edward VII but was still popular and made more than £35000 profit.

"He wore half-mourning.

The final six months of "half-mourning" allowed the bereaved to wear muted or neutral colors: shades and tints of purple were most common.

M'lady-to-be looked fatigued this evening, although that might be partially the effect of the drab gray half-mourning she still wore, her dark hair drawn back in a severe knot.

He wondered what Minorca was really like as a place to stop in; in his mind's eye it was an island in perpetual half-mourning, with black or white Minorca hens running all over it.

A blonde woman fashionably dressed in half-mourning, wearing a violet gown, her hair dressed high under a huge picture hat trimmed with a bird of paradise in full flight, rose to meet them, or rather to meet Dr Neil.

It was not unusual for the British court to declare that all citizens should wear full mourning for a specified period after the death of the monarch, or that the members of the court should wear full- or half-mourning for an extended period.