Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The rank or condition of a dowager.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The rank or condition of a
dowager .
Etymologies
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dowager + -ism
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Examples
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The remaining three sides are composed of mansions that have passed away into dowagerism — tall, dark houses, with window-frames of stone, or picked out of a lighter red.
Vanity Fair 2006
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The remaining three sides are composed of mansions that have passed away into dowagerism -- tall, dark houses, with window-frames of stone, or picked out of a lighter red.
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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