I guess a dowager is actually always a woman who inherits property from her dead husband. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.] Reference
It distinguished the dowager Mrs. Smith from the wife of her eldest son; today the word dowager, imitating the English usage, is frequently employed in fashionable society. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 4. Euphemisms] Reference
Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
A dowager is a woman who doesn't dance: and her male attendant is -- what is he?. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, but they were women that were more like what you would call the dowager or the ladylike type of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I fully admit that I just now had to look up the word "dowager" in the dictionary, and he's sort of correct. From Wordnik.com. [Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.] Reference
"She was then called the dowager mother, and came to live here, in this house, with her own servants. From Wordnik.com. [The Rockingdown Mystery]
LA BLOTTIERE (Mademoiselle Merlin de), under the Restoration, a kind of dowager and canoness at Tours; in company with Mesdames Pauline. From Wordnik.com. [Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2] Reference
"You have gone and changed your clothes," observed dowager lady Chia. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
But the thing touched him far deeper than it touched the aged dowager. From Wordnik.com. [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference
His lordly dowager afforded the world of high life perpetual amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
"And a very good thing too," said the purple-visaged dowager wrathfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
"Well, all right," observed dowager lady Chia, after some consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The queen-dowager has generally an independent provision, but cannot marry. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
This Hsi Jen had also been, originally, one of dowager lady Chia's servant-girls. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
A waiting-maid sent by dowager lady Chia came in, meanwhile, to ask what was the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The men raved of her, and she, the faded little dowager duchess, disliked her accordingly. From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
And then their laughs and jokes at a soiree would give a dowager from Frenchtown an apoplexy!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Yueh, at length left his apartments, and coming over, paid his obeisance to dowager lady Chia. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
During one of these intervals, a kindly dowager leaned toward the performer, and whispered loudly. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
"Books, you say!" exclaimed dowager lady Chia; "why all they know are a few characters, that's all.". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
For years, Labor's Tony Blair and Tory dowager Margaret Thatcher were fiscally conservative soulmates. From Wordnik.com. [An Odd-Couple Split] Reference
Pao-yü speedily went out to greet them and to take them over to pay their respects to dowager lady Chia. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Don't you know that I have nobody on my side at present but this respectable dowager on the first floor below?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
There is a certain dowager still extant who considers it absurd to provide amusement for people of inferior station. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
The dowager Madame Fromont herself could have found nothing to say as to the orderly and cleanly aspect of the place. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As the dowager queen (a title she detested), the Queen Mum was known for her love of dogs, horses, TV comedians and gin. From Wordnik.com. [In Memoriam: A Light In The Darkness] Reference
"That's the sweetest girl I've seen in England," said Lady Angleford to her neighbor, who happened to be the dowager duchess. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
"Quite so!" answered dowager lady Chia, smiling; "you can go home too, and there will be no need for you to come over again!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Madame Wang then led Tai-yü by the hand through a corridor, running east and west, into what was dowager lady Chia's back-court. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Earlier, on a visit to Beijing, she found herself in the courtyard of the fabled Forbidden City, where the dowager empress had ruled. From Wordnik.com. [The Kay We Loved] Reference
Italy in 1912, a certain dowager commented, "Mr. Lowrie's sermons made me feel comfortable, but Mr. Nelson makes me feel a miserable sinner!". From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Very seldom does a hunchbacked dowager hesitate to put upon her shoulders the garment that draped so charmingly those of the living statue hired to parade before her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Well, it's certainly an inventive premise: the empress dowager really gave Hong Kong to Britain forever - and agents on every side must race around to find the long-lost document. From Wordnik.com. [Move Over, Suzie Wong] Reference
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