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Definition of Dowager
1. Noun. A widow holding property received from her deceased husband.
Definition of Dowager
1. n. A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
Definition of Dowager
1. Noun. A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband. ¹
2. Noun. Any lady of dignified bearing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dowager
1. a dignified elderly woman [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowager
Literary usage of Dowager
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"treason, she shall (whether consort or dowager) be tried by the peers of parliament,
... Queen dowager.—A queen dowager is the widow of the king, ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... the Queen dowager They were not deposed from their degree, P. sf05. ...
made by the primitive Church "poce with the Queen dowager ; so in that about it ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"The Trial of ELIZABETH, calling herself Duchess dowager of KINGSTON, tor Bigamy :*
before the Right Hon. the House of Peers, in Westminster-Hall, ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"dowager, much too effulgent, of the late Karl Alexander, ;i Reichs-Feldmarschall (or
fourth-part of one, if readers could remember) and Duke of ..."
5. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"The Duchess dowager of Wurtemberg, returning from Berlin^ favours us with another
Visit I am sorry to say this is almost the last scene we shall get out of ..."
6. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1865)
"A declaration made by the confederate lords of Scotland to the queen of England;
of their taking amis against the queen dowager of Scotland, and the French. ..."
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