dowager

How To Use dowager In A Sentence

• On our left, the elegant old dowager Cloister slept in its garden of flowers, under its arching canopy of ancient oaks. DOWNTOWN
• 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
• The empress dowager looked up, the tears beginning to course down those flawless cheeks.
• This is a friend from Scotland, the dowager Countess of Kirkwell.
• A kinswoman of and chamberer to Queen Kathryn Parr, she was with the queen dowager when she died. Secrets of the Tudor Court
• 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
• She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
• 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
• His wife, meanwhile, became dresser to their old patroness, the Queen-Dowager, Henrietta-Maria.
• They, together with the custody of the young earl, were given to the dowager countess and so remained under Herbert control.