dowager
Example Sentences
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They did, for 17 additional episodes, until Spratt’s boss, the dowager countess, dismissed him.
From Los Angeles Times
The “old dowagers,” as Mrs. Holladay described a set of her critics, objected to what they perceived as the museum’s feminist bent, whereas feminists, she said, found the museum to be “some white-gloved establishment thing.”
From Washington Post
His grin could charm the diamonds off a dowager — and does.
From Washington Post
An English dowager’s new secretary is drugged by her son and told she’s his wife.
From Los Angeles Times
Her cousin, Mary — to some, the queen of Scotland, dowager queen of France and the rightful queen of England, but to her enemies, “that conniving Scottish witch” — languishes in the Tower of London.
From New York Times
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