widowhead

From widow +‎ -head.

widowhead (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Widowhood.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Then this bold Tyrant, of her widowhed / Taking advantage, and her yet fresh woes, / Himselfe and service to her offered […]