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Dowager vs Frau - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dowager and frau

is that dowager is a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband while frau is a woman, especially a German woman.

dowager

English

(wikipedia dowager)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
  • *
  • *:“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.

    • See also

    * ("dowager" on Wikipedia)

    Anagrams

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    frau

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A woman, especially a German woman.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 12, author=Grace Glueck, title=Fun With Studio Crafts: When the Traditional Gets Quirky, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It presents Dürer’s mother as a sharp-nosed, world-weary German frau looking wryly out at life from under a decorous wimple. }} ----