dowager
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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
To embody the idea of filial piety to appeal to the Grand Queen Dowager, Yeon creates doenjang-guk, a traditional soybean paste stew, but adds two special ingredients: spinach and clams.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
In hit ITV drama Downton Abbey, Smith played Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, the grand matriarch who excelled at withering one-liners through the show's six series.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2024
The stage design for the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday is more Doctor Strange modern and less Dowager Countess musty.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023
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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