Hav ‧ i ‧ sham, Miss /ˈhævəʃəm, ˈhævɪʃəm/ BrE AmE
a character in the book ↑ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. She is a strange, rich old woman who hates men because her future husband left her on their wedding day. She still wears her wedding dress and everything in her house has been left exactly as it was on her wedding day, and is now covered in ↑ cobweb s .