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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband.
  2. n. An elderly woman of high social station.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In law, a widow endowed or possessed of a jointure.
  2. n. A title given to a widow to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name: applied particularly to the widows of princes and persons of rank.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
  2. n. Any lady of dignified bearing.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Eng. Law) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
  2. n. A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a widow holding property received from her deceased husband

Etymologies

  1. This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology. (Wiktionary)
  2. Obsolete French douagière, from douage, dower, from douer, to endow, from Latin dōtāre, from dōs, dōt-, dowry; see dō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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