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dowager

[dou-uh-jer] / ˈdaʊ ə dʒər /
NOUN
old woman
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“Seeing all of you enjoy it so much, I couldn’t ask for more,” says Yeon, before addressing the Grand Queen Dowager, “May you always be safe in good health.”

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

Once the Queen Dowager tastes the soup, she’s transported back to childhood and tearfully declares, “The soup contains family. She has given me my family through this dish.”

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

He also delivers one of the most spectacular line readings of the phrase “beekeepers and bottling fruit,” so don’t worry — the spirit of the Dowager Countess lives on.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 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

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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