noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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the dowager empress
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her acne hadn't cleared up, and she was trying to look like a dowager .
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Only a century ago, a fair proportion of us would have died in childbirth, or been dubbed dowagers by 40.
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Provision needed to be made for dowager widows, and for younger sons and for daughters, and perhaps for other persons.
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The dowager looked on and smiled and thought courteously about the people.
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The morning-coated manager had recognized them and was being proprietary with them in front of a dowager customer.
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They, together with the custody of the young earl, were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control.