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Definition of Dowagers
1. dowager [n] - See also: dowager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dowagers
Literary usage of Dowagers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Society As I Have Found It by Ward MacAllister (1890)
"... and dowagers— Tht latter mart Appreciative of the Good Things—Interviewing
the Chef— "Uncle Sam" Ward's Plan —Mock Turtle Soup a Delusion and a Snare ..."
2. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... and What They Didn't—The Memory of Elegant Attire—Impressing the Public Mind—How
Unperverted Minds are Affected—" Bare-necked dowagers—" A Large Crowd ..."
3. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"dowagers as Plenty as Flounders.'—Catherine Hyde, Duchess of Queens- berry.—Anecdote
of Lady Granville.—Kitty Clive.—Death of Horatio Wai- pole. ..."
4. Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York by Abram Child Dayton (1897)
"... to inaugurate monthly balls at the City Hotel defeated by the dowagers and
the ministers—Young America driven to Apollo" by unyielding formality. ..."
5. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"... attended by the servants of the nobility, their royal highnesses, their present
majesties, the queen dowagers and the late kings servants ..."
6. Beau Brummell by William Jesse (1844)
"... Berri— Fasting dowagers — " An untoward event." T"o return, however, to his
last letter. He had the gratification of finding The Butterfly 's Funeral ..."
7. Leaves from an Actor's Note-book: With Reminiscences and Chit-chat of the by George Vandenhoff (1860)
"... dowagers—Contrasts in Life—New St. Charles Theatre—An Incident—Mr. Hackett: his
... dowagers ..."
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