dowager
dow·a·ger (dou
-jr)
n.
1. A widow who holds a title or property derived from her deceased husband.
2. An elderly woman of high social station.
[Obsolete French douagière, from douage, dower, from douer, to endow, from Latin d
t
re, from ds, dt-, dowry; see d- in Indo-European roots.]
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| Noun | 1. | dowager – a widow holding property received from her deceased husband
widow, widow woman – a woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried
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