dowager's

They are like women's colleges or summer camps, but for what were once called dowager's humps, but for the shoes with Velcro closure and grown-ups in scooters.

NYT > Home Page By JANE GROSS 2011

He is about to retire, but will stay on for two days a week at the dowager's request.

The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010

The carpet and furniture were as clean and as free of soot as a proper dowager's parlor, and if anything, the levels of sophistication and luxury were more evident by daylight.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

The problem was not the dowager's disapproval, but a 16-year marriage in which no heirs were produced.

Cool Paintings that Make me Sad Because They No Longer Exist Heather Carroll 2008

Is the dowager's estate in Niagara Falls by any chance?

Grudge Match: Charlie's Angels vs. Three Stooges Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Will the Stooges deplete the dowager's domicile, or will the television trio terrify the stumbling Stooges?

Grudge Match: Charlie's Angels vs. Three Stooges Jaime J. Weinman 2007

Osteoporosis used to be considered a normal part of aging, characterized by a loss of height and, in women (the majority of patients), by the "dowager's hump" that makes you look bent over even when you're standing up.

Bones of Invention 2007

If I made it again I would take in the upper back center seam about 1/2 inch; for some reason I have the opposite of a dowager's hump dowager's sinkhole? and dresses seem to gape on me there.

January 2007 2007

Someday, those differences and others still undetected could make the dowager's hump disappear forever.

Bones of Invention 2007

Will the Stooges deplete the dowager's domicile, or will the television trio terrify the stumbling Stooges?

Archive 2007-12-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007