dowager
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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
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
Tasked with saying lines like, "We shall use what I believe is called 'cancel culture,'" Tracy wears her out-of-touch disdain for Meghan like a dowager countess's prized stole.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2021
Some 300 participants and organizers gathered in the ornate ballroom of the Washington Duke Hotel, the sixteen-story fading dowager of Durham’s glory days, to celebrate the completion of their work.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Vocabulary lists containing dowager
"The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen
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Chinese History - Middle School and High School
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Dame Maggie Smith (1934–2024) Tribute List
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