dowager

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All this is deeply regretted, for, in the old days, there was no portion of the county more decidedly true blue than that Framley district; and, indeed, up to the present day, the dowager is able to give an occasional helping hand Chaldicotes is the seat of Nathaniel Sowerby, Esq., who, at the moment supposed to be now present, is one of the members for the Western Division of Barsetshire.

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

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  • "My prime Chicago example: Oak Street's 70-year-old deco dowager, the Esquire." —  GreenCine Daily
  • He also endeavoured to teach the queen-dowager, his grandmother, an art with which she had long been perfectly familiar! —  Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book"
  • But his aunt, he thought, was more afraid of him now that he was the Earl than she had been when he was only the heir; and it might be that this feeling would save him from the mention of Kate O'Hara's name To some extent the dowager was afraid of her nephew. —  An Eye for an Eye
  • Other servants came forward to see to the rest of the guests The most remarkable quality observable in the countess-dowager, apart from her great breadth, was her restlessness. —  Elster's Folly
  • Val retired to rest laughing: it was a good joke to him But it was no joke to the countess-dowager, as he found to his cost when the morning came. —  Elster's Folly
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  1. Obsolete French douagière, from douage, dower, from douer, to endow, from Latin dōtāre, from dōs, dōt-, dowry; see dō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Old French douagiere (Middle Latin doageria), a dowager (def. 1), fem, of douagier, douaigier, dowaigier, adjective, from douage (as if English *dowage), dower, from Old French douer, English dow, endow: see dow, dower.
 

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