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dowager

[dou-uh-jer] / ˈdaʊ ə dʒər /
NOUN
old woman
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The dowager countess haunts the film, Fellowes says.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2025

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

She accelerates those winds by outsmarting the dowager princess and planning a ball featuring Black and white members of society mixing, something previously unheard of until Charlotte's arrival.

From Salon May 6, 2023

I follow the curve around the Parliament Building with its form of a squatting Victorian dowager, darkish pink, skirts huffed out, stolid.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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