dowager
Example Sentences
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A dowager’s hump, bright red hair streaked with white and a perma-snarl completed the character.
From New York Times
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
Still beautiful if no longer young, she adopted yet another identity, that of the upper-crust dowager.
From New York Times
Tasked with saying lines like, "We shall use what I believe is called 'cancel culture,'" Tracy wears her out-of-touch disdain for Meghan like a dowager countess's prized stole.
From Salon
They did, for 17 additional episodes, until Spratt’s boss, the dowager countess, dismissed him.
From Los Angeles Times
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