dowager

How To Use dowager In A Sentence

• Her mother, a dingy old dowager, with bad teeth, dowdy gowns, a profusion of artificial flowers, and a strong addiction to tea and knitting, perfectly understood the duties of duennaship, and did propriety by her daughter's side at dinner-table and promenade. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
• She was what you might call a frosted pippin, a reg'lar dowager dazzler, like the pictures you see on fans. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
• But even this global giant has to listen up, at the annual stakeholders’ meeting, to elderly dowagers complaining that the new parking bollards installed by the consortium clash horribly with their bourgainvillea.
• I thought I'd been the perfect hostess till one of the dowagers asked for ‘gin and it.’
• Troll among the tables, and you'll see dowagers dressed in ermine coats, Japanese power couples with bouffant hairdos, lunching ladies clutching lizard handbags the color of the sky.
• The principal dedicatee of her book is the dowager Duchess of Cumberland, “an exceedingly pious lady, a zealous puritan who helped foster the spread of her beliefs” (id. s.v. “Margaret Clifford”). Shakespeare Controversies
• She had yachted and hunted, and bathed and danced, she had dined with the pompous Lord Mayor of London; she had hung on the braided coat sleeve of high military relics of modern antiquity, and had been kissed on both cheeks by all the wrinkled-lipped dowagers of the surrounding country. The Doctor's Daughter
• The lady who had known the Guer-mantes since 1914 considered another who had been introduced to them in 1916 a parvenue, gave her the nod of a dowager duchess while inspecting her through her lorgnon, and avowed with a significant gesture that no one in society knew whether the lady was even married. Time Regained
• ‘I apologize,’ he said, grinning at the three dowagers.
• He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of Anatomy of Melancholy