Havisham
Proper noun
Meaning
Havisham
A surname.
Examples
As a lifelong reminder of the pain he caused her by leaving her at the altar, Miss Havisham keeps the wedding feast on her banquet table, just as it was.
From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens’ dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire.
Yet I do not stay huddled in my house, trapped in the past like Miss Havisham after getting jilted at the altar, if that tiger is in a cage at the zoo.