Dowager vs Dame - What's the difference?
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A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers , the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,!”
Any lady of dignified bearing.
(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
Dowager is a related term of dame.
As a noun dowager
is a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.As a verb dame is
.dowager
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*dame
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(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !