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dowager

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈdaʊədʒə/Part of speech nounSorted adegorwStarts with DEnds with R0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a widow holding property received from her deceased husband

Word origin

From Middle French douagere, douagiere, from douage (“dower”), from the verb douer (“to endow”), from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”).

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  • A reclusive dowager owned the pastures across the river, and her farmhands ran beef cattle on them.
  • the Earl and Countess of Whiteacre, and the Earl's mother, the dowager Countess of Whiteacre
  • Sir George Sitwell, Bt. and Lady Sitwell, and Sir George's mother, the dowager Lady Sitwell

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