douairièren.
rare.
A dowager.
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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]
old wifeeOE
old womanOE
trota1375
carlinec1375
cronec1386
vecke1390
monea1393
hagc1400
ribibec1405
aunt?a1425
crate14..
witchc1475
mauda1500
mackabroine1546
grandam?1550
grannam1565
old lady1575
beldam1580
lucky1629
granny1634
patriarchess1639
runta1652
harridan1699
grimalkin1798
mama1810
tante1815
wifie1823
maw1826
old dear1836
tante1845
Mother Bunch1847
douairière1869
dowager1870
veteraness1880
old trout1897
tab1909
bag1924
crow1925
ma1932
Skinny Liz1940
old bag1947
old boot1958
tannie1958
LOL1960
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > widow or widower > [noun] > widow > types of widow > widow with share of husband's property
lady of dower1439
doweress1519
dowager1530
dowrier1551
tercerc1575
jointress1604
jointuressa1693
dowee1865
douairière1869
1869 G. Meredith Let. 16 Aug. (1970) I. 390 The person proposed by the douairière young and with money.
1919 R. Firbank Valmouth xi. 206 ‘Have you any intention, Eulalia,’ a douairière inquired, ‘of visiting the present châtelaine of Nosely?’
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