dowager
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To embody the idea of filial piety to appeal to the Grand Queen Dowager, Yeon creates doenjang-guk, a traditional soybean paste stew, but adds two special ingredients: spinach and clams.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
In her later years, she was the imperious Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey, and Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024
That script cast her as Constance, Dowager Countess of Trentham, whose sense of humor sparkled beside other diamonds.
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2024
The stage design for the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is more Doctor Strange modern and less Dowager Countess musty.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
But the three most distinguished—partly, perhaps, because the tallest figures of the band—were the Dowager Lady Ingram and her daughters, Blanche and Mary.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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