dowager

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Fellow Downton star Samantha Bond says fledgling performers in the series sometimes found it hard to distinguish between Dame Maggie and the acid-tongued dowager countess she portrayed.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

Previous generations freely shared lilac slips with friends and neighbors, producing purple threads of sweetly scented dowager shrubs up and down the street.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2024

Following Gaozong’s death in 683, Wu ruled as empress dowager and regent for her son, though she held all the real power of the state.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Hardboiled in a dowager disguise, Mrs. Fletcher is independent-minded and free of sentimentality, always ready to take a dispassionate stand for truth.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2022

It raised her stature to the royal lady which she was, to a straight-backed dowager whose rheumatic fingers flashed with rings, who had ridden the world successfully for fifty years.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White