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dowager

The style given to the widow of a British peer or baronet.

She may take the style of ‘Dowager Countess of Blankshire’ (so as not to be confused with the wife of the current holder of the title); alternatively she may take the style of ‘Mary, Countess of Blankshire’ (although this is the style also used by divorced wives of peers).



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"But tell me," he added with studied carelessness as if it had only just occurred to him, though the question he was about to ask was the chief motive of his visit, "is it true that the Dowager Empress wants Baron Funke to be appointed first secretary at Vienna?
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The Bath paper one morning announced the arrival of the Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple, and her daughter, the Honourable Miss Carteret; and all the comfort of No.
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His last position had been with the Dowager Duchess of Waveney, the well-known political hostess, who--even had the somewhat generous lines on which she was built not prevented the possibility of such a thing--would have perished rather than dance barefooted in a public restaurant.
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