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
When money had to be raised for death duties after the death of the 8th Duke in 1918, the Stanwick estate, which had been occupied by the dowager duchess and then let after her death, was the logical sacrifice.
Well, in that case," responded dowager lady Chia, "let us fix upon five catties a day, and every month come and receive payment of the whole lump sum! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
Famille noire items fell out of favor after the Kangxi period and were again immensely popular during the years of the Dowager Empress's influence.
The wife of an earl is a countess, and if that earl dies his wife becomes the Dowager Lady Blank.
In it are splendid Spanish Baroque buildings, some fading like the ghosts of grand dowagers, others newly primped models of the famed restoration of La Habana Vieja.
Completed in 1602, the temple was named Cihui (Compassion and Wisdom) by the dowager empress.
Some dowagers or widows are noted for their sharp tongue.
With creative designs incorporated during her many refits, this gracious dowager duchess - now at the ripe old age of 31-is in her prime as she sails into the next millennium, vast, confident and wonderfully stately.
Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: ” 'No, sir, but the badger is.' The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
By the time she married Prince Albert I of Monaco in 1889, she was a wealthy woman in her own right who carried an important French title as the dowager duchess of Richelieu.
The dowager countess will be there and you can bet no one will rest until everything is perfect.
In the land of the shining empire, in a small province north of the city of Messaline and beyond the great salt desert, a princess with a tip-tilted nose lived with her mother, Hoelun Khatun, the Dowager Queen. PodCastle » PodCastle 96: Love Among the Talus
Dowager, nor shall any member of the clans of the imperial consorts be appointed regents [during the minority of young emperors], nor shall they be given enfeoffment without due merit. Empresses and Consorts
Nobody was allowed to eat in the Empress Dowager's presence.
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
As usual, the old dowager's preoccupation with color and markings had more to do with politics than aesthetics.
The dowager duchess is not receiving callers.
A birthday composition for the dowager Duchess of Gloucester was played by the pipes and drums of her regiment, the King's Own Scottish Borderers.
In 1527 he was appointed "custos" or head of the Chapter of Stuhlweissenburg, and accompanied the queen-dowager in 1530 to the imperial diet at The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
A group of manuscripts made for the Dowager Queen Eliska Rejka 1315-23 show first-hand knowledge of Franco-Flemish illumination, while a passional illuminated for the Abbess Kunhuta in about 1320 (Prague, University Lib.) remains obscure.
Additional estates were granted to the empress dowager, the heir apparent, imperial princesses, imperial in-laws, and members of the merit aristocracy.
The dowagers who were playing cards seemed to be there for the sole purpose of embarrassing the conversation of the younger guests, and Raymon fancied that he could read on their stern features the secret satisfaction which old age takes in avenging itself by blocking other people's pleasure. Indiana
Sophie and the dowager in the first overlord of the dialogue.
It was the Dowager who spoke first, and her whole voice and manner expressed all she intended that they should, all the derision, dislike and scathing resignment to a grotesque fate. The Shuttle
The Dowager met it, taking her grieving sister-in-law under her wing. DEVIL'S BRIDE
Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators. Vignettes of San Francisco
But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
A dowager is a woman who doesn't dance: and her male attendant is -- what is he? Evan Harrington — Volume 5
I have consoled myself with champagne, and with imagining edifices of elaborate insults to every dowager that has strutted past the table. THE WHITE DOVE
As the iron-jawed dowager, Diana Rigg has a venomous tongue and a bitter, unyielding nature.
Now the maid had never heard the word dowager in her life, but thought she would make a shot for it, so when his reverence asked if Mrs. MacCarthy was at home, she blurted out: -- The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
The dowager was always called "my lady", both by her own daughter and by her son's wife, except in the presence of their children, when she was addressed as "grandmamma". The Last Chronicle of Barset
I want to nip in and out of places not be wheeled about like some grand old dowager on her rounds. FALLEN WOMEN
Then there is dowager Jodha Bai, stately, self-contained, but lording over her eyes which swell with more water than a cloudburst can contain.
Only a century ago, a fair proportion of us would have died in childbirth, or been dubbed dowagers by 40.
The Queen Dowager, adopting now a very different tone from that which characterized her conversation at the Bayonne interview, wrote to Alva, that, if for want of 2000 Spanish musketeers, which she requested him to furnish, she should be obliged to succumb, she chose to disculpate herself in advance before God and Christian princes for the peace which she should be obliged to make. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74)
The dowager duchess swiftly turned the knob, and drew the door open a tad, just enough space for the little girl to stride in.
Amhuinnsuidhe Castle - in effect a Scots baronial house - was built in 1867 by a Scottish architect, and it was the dowager Countess who encouraged the production of Harris Tweed.
The only catch in that is that Sonia might be there as the dowager baronetess, in which case she would insist on playing all the leading rôles. Final Curtain
A literary dowager I know was immediately enthusiastic: ‘Oh, I would love that.’
I guess a dowager is actually always a woman who inherits property from her dead husband. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.
A year ago the necessities of Alfred Waltham's affairs had led to a change; he and his wife and their two children, together with Mrs. Waltham the dowager, removed to what the auctioneers call a commodious residence on the outskirts of Belwick. Demos
An even more striking case was that of the dowager Countess of Oxford, a devoted Ricardian who orchestrated opposition to Henry IV in Essex in 1403-4.
Death waved a veiny arm out my kitchen window, and a dowager squirrel fell from the crepe myrtle tree into the birdbath. Death Pays a Visit But Fucks Up
Dowager lady Chia observed that Pao-yü was clad in a deep-red felt fringed overcoat, with woollen lichee-coloured archery-sleeves and with an edging of dark green glossy satin, embroidered with gold rings. Hung Lou Meng
On the appointed day and time, the dowager's doorbell rang and she walked out onto her porch.
Dowager went off in her jingling old coach, attended by two faithful and withered old maids of honour, and a little snuffy spindle-shanked gentleman in waiting, in a brown jasey and a green coat covered with orders — of which the star and the grand yellow cordon of the order of St. Michael of Pumpernickel were most conspicuous. Vanity Fair
No more quiet nights of bridge with dowagers, however elegant.
He's the kind of a guy who would put a lampshade on his head and dance the fandango if he thought it would make one person smile, and it takes a similar kind of Texas chutzpah to get up on the stage at the Carlyle, in front of debutantes and dowagers sporting enough jewelry to exceed the gross national product of Madagascar, and sing "Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jubilant and Jazzy for the Holidays
The other students looked down their noses at them, especially the ones who came from so-called blue-blooded families, families who were able to trace their lineage back to the Pilgrims, families like Grandma Olivia’s, Daddy’s mother, who ruled over us like a dowager queen. Music in The Night
It distinguished the dowager Mrs. Smith from the wife of her eldest son; today the word dowager, imitating the English usage, is frequently employed in fashionable society. Chapter 4. American and English Today. 4. Euphemisms
They, together with the custody of the young earl, were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control.
His wife, meanwhile, became dresser to their old patroness, the Queen-Dowager, Henrietta-Maria.
We all know that sort of transaction: the squabbling, and gobbling, and popping of champagne; the smell of musk and lobster-salad; the dowagers chumping away at plates of raised pie; the young lassies nibbling at little titbits, which the dexterous young gentlemen procure. Mrs. Perkins's Ball
She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
Marriage made her Lady Andrew Cavendish, then Marchioness of Hartington, th en Duchess of Devonshire that ' s all the same husband, and I can ' t blame Americans who find British nomenclature taxing; since her husband died six years ago, she has been the Dowager Duchess. Portrait of a Vanishing World
A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died. Secrets of the Tudor Court
This is a friend from Scotland, the dowager Countess of Kirkwell.
The empress dowager looked up, the tears beginning to course down those flawless cheeks.
There is even a radiogram, one of the pieces which the Dowager Duchess herself is selling: it is of course a rather grand walnut veneered model by the royal jewellers Garrard and Co. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch £2.5m
Born on Christmas Day, 1901, Alice, the dowager Duchess of Gloucester, lived to see 20 prime ministers and five monarchs.
With difficulty, they squeezed their way up to the large drawing room to be announced; the buzz of many conversations lulling for a moment as the guests took in the dowager's rare public appearance.
At that time Nimmyo's mother, Dowager Empress Saga, took the tonsure and entered a temple.
I quite enjoyed this video compilation of the Dowager Countess’ best burns from all six seasons of Downton Abbey.
Lady Gwyneth grinned, looking for all the world like an excited child unleashed without adult supervision in a toy shop, instead of a dignified dowager of the ton with three grown-up grandchildren.
In the front pew were the dowager duchess, the eighth Duke of Rivenston, the Duke of Stafford and the Lady Lorraine.
She had discovered that his greatness was at best a kind of lap-dog or tame cat distinction; that he was better known as the caressed and petted adviser of patrician dowagers and effeminate old gentlemen, of fashionable beauties and hysterical matrons, than as one of the lights of his profession. The Golden Calf
Victoria's last publication was the Officium defunctorum, written, he states, for the exequies of the dowager empress in 1603, and including his famous six-voice music for the Requiem Mass.
I fully admit that I just now had to look up the word "dowager" in the dictionary, and he's sort of correct. Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Today's Vocabulary Lesson.
From youthful but elegant matrons to eagle-eyed dowagers, they were assured, secure in their social positions. A RAKE'S VOW
This is no time for political reporters to be holding their noses like dowager duchesses aghast at the vulgarity of the masses.
At the party this dowager duchess looked at me and whispered loudly, ‘It's disgusting!
On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
The widow of a marquis, whom you should by rights call a marchioness dowager (but we overlook it -- you meant no harm) is entitled (in any hotel that we know or frequent) to go in to dinner whenever, and as often, as she likes. Frenzied Fiction
Surprised, the dowager duchess sputtered for a few times before exclaiming, ‘Raphael!’
This was commissioned by an Anglo-Irish peeress, the dowager Countess of Sandwich, in circumstances to be explained.
Louis' only son, the dauphin, wasn't a promising prospect, and Louis' other four children with an earlier mistress had to wait until the dowager Queen's death before he could force their legitimacy through the French parlement.
The greatest dining establishments age gracefully, of course, like rich dowagers, without a seeming care in the world.
She whispered in the dowager's ear and went off to find the ladies withdrawing room.
When he appeared in Cork in 1491 he was taken up by a number of people who wished to embarrass Henry, including the earls of Kildare and Desmond, Charles VIII of France, and Margaret, dowager duchess of Burgundy.
As duke, Theseus might easily hasten on the day of marriage if he wished, and indeed he chafes at the waning 'old moon 'that' lingers my desires/Like to a stepdame or a dowager/Long withering out a young man's revenue ', and yet he chooses to abide by the self-imposed delay. Shakespeare
The house which the worthy goldsmith inhabited, had in former times belonged to a powerful and wealthy baronial family, which, during the reign of Henry VIII., terminated in a dowager lady, very wealthy, very devout, and most unalienably attached to the Catholic faith. The Fortunes of Nigel
Mrs. Booker T. Washington, but they were women that were more like what you would call the dowager or the ladylike type of thing. Oral History Interview with Modjeska Simkins, November 15, 1974. Interview G-0056-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

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