“Did this, in some small measure, help console the widow? No. For what the almone wailed was: 'My poor Isadore—all his life he worked, day and night, and we lived poor as mice, and just when God decides to drop a fortune in our lap, Izzy drops dead!'" (NJY)

"Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama's mother, is a 'almone' (widow) and retired bank secretary." (source)