Dowager vs Mrs - 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.
(UK) A title used before an adult female's name or surname. Traditionally reserved for married individuals and used with the married surname.
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Dowager is a related term of mrs.
As a noun dowager
is a widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.As an initialism mrs is
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(Mmes)- Mrs Malaprop said, “He’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
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