divorcee
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- n a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband
- Clare Brokaw -- journalist and playwright, future Congresswoman and ambassador -- at 31 was Manhattan's paradigmatic gay divorcee, renowned as much for her merciless wit as for her .
- The new divorcee gets her elaborate Spanish decree with its impressive ribbons and seals.
- Though Gertrude Baniszewski, a divorcee, pleaded insanity, three court-appointed psychiatrists pronounced her sane.