Divorcee
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Legal guardian · Ward |
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Divorcee is an archaic term referring to a woman whose marriage ended in divorce, a legal dissolution of marriage before death of either spouse. At one time the term had negative cultural and religious associations. In Europe and North America this began to moderate in the 1960s.