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• Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.From the entry scandalize
• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.From the entry consort
• The dowager empress detested the Vladimirovichs and allegedly sought another solution.1994, Greg King, “Autumn of Delusions”, in The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina of Russia, Secaucus…. From the entry Vladimirovich
• Penny whist, the game of shabby genteel dowagers and doddards.1984, Elizabeth Hewitt, Captain Black, New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, →ISBN, page 57. From the entry doddard
• “A Duchess of Saxony— fancy some dragonsome dowager—tearing across in the snow, to help a Duke of Burgundy, was it?1913, Charles Edward Montague, The Morning's War. From the entry dragonsome
• Only the empress or empress dowager could wear a main necklace formed of Manchurian pearls, the other two being made of coral.2007, Valery Garrett, Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present, page 40. From the entry semiformal
• The thin crescent of the first quarter gradually works its way eastward and fleshens up into quite a dowager inside of two weeks.2003, Thomas S. Stribling, Randy K. Cross, John T. McMillan, Laughing Stock, page 228. From the entry fleshen
• Ruling women could wield authority not only as consort, regnant, regent and even dowager queens, but also as proxy rulers such as lieutenants, governors and vice-reines.2020, Amanda L. Capern, editor, The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry vice-reine
• Mrs Hurstpierpoint - the dowager of the gleaming brows - leaned forward all at once in the carriage and pulled the checkstring attached to her footman's arm.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 4. From the entry checkstring
• The October rose, done-for, deposed dowager majarani of the sideyard, munificent Persian slumped on her cane, uncrowned, desceptered, undeceptive, now leans against my neighbor’s fence, the image of feigned indifference.2000, Jennifer Atkinson, “October Rose”, in The Drowned City, Boston, Mass.: Northeastern University Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry descepter
• It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190. From the entry pander

Meaning of dowager

1. noun A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
2. noun The widow of the holder of a title (usually a member of the peerage or a baronet); used in combination with the title she held during her husband's lifetime.
3. noun Any lady of dignified bearing, especially an older one.

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How do you use dowager in a sentence?

Dowager is used as a noun. For example: “A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.”

What is a short sentence with dowager?

“Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.”

What does dowager mean?

Dowager means a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.