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dowagers \Prononciation ?\ |
dowager \Prononciation ?\
- Douairière.
In the rare visits paid by his Lordship to the Dowager and his aunt, Lady Meliora Chichester, the latter was too astute not to detect the eye of her grand-son-in-law wandering over the premises, as if devising what alterations he would make on coming to the property ; and the Dowager, in the prime of life when this surmise first entered her head had vowed within herself that her age should be doubled before the wishes of the Earl were accomplished.
— (Catherine Grace Frances Gore, The Dowager, 1854)Not long after that marriage had taken place, the ties of family between the two had been drawn closer by the marriage of the Lord Keeper's son, —then Sir John Egerton,— with Lady Frances Stanley, the Countess's second daughter by her former husband the Earl of Derby. Thus while the Countess-Dowager was the wife of the father, one of her daughters was the wife of the son.
— (John Milton, The Minor Poems, 1882)
- (Par extension) Dame de digne allure.
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