widow's walk

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   a lookout atop a coastal house

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Questions about widow's walk

What does widow's walk mean?

widow's walk means "a lookout atop a coastal house".

Is widow's walk a common word?

widow's walk is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.