mourning

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of mourn

noun

1. The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation.
2. Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death.
   A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway. 1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 279
   And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir. 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax
   Unsurprisingly for a man who went into mourning for three years after the death in 1994 of his own father, the legendary leader Kim Il-sung, and who in the first 30 years of his political career made no public statements, even to his own people, Kim's career is riddled with claims, counter claims, speculation, and contradiction. There are few hard facts about his birth and early years. December 19, 2011, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
3. The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black).
   ‘I'm bored. I can't go out anywhere because it's too soon and I have to wear this disgusting mourning.’ 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 88
4. Drapes or coverings associated with mourning.