mourning clothes

They dressed the children in mourning clothes when their mother died.
À la mort de leur mère, on a habillé les enfants de vêtements de deuil.
The woman performs a real staging (she puts on mourning clothes), a theatrical piece, a fiction that acquires the same truth as real life.
La femme se livre à une véritable mise en scène (elle porte un vêtement de deuil), jouant une vraie pièce de théâtre, une fiction qui devient aussi vraie que la vie réelle.
She put on mourning clothes to go to the funeral.
Elle s'est vêtue de deuil pour aller à l'enterrement.
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