dowager

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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

Consider the haughtiness of her unforgettable dowager in “Gosford Park” set against the character’s dire financial straits.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2024

Following Gaozong’s death in 683, Wu ruled as empress dowager and regent for her son, though she held all the real power of the state.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

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 • Jul. 30, 2022

Is she really going to devote fifty hours of her life to a crotchety dowager in a drafty attic, going through boxes filled with moths and dust mites and who knows what else?

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline