| 单词 | princess-dowager |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprincess-dowager a. A woman whose husband is dead and who is in the enjoyment of some title or some property that has come to her from him. Often added to the title so enjoyed, as princess-dowager, queen-dowager, dowager-duchess, dowager-queen, dowager-lady, etc.Apparently first used of Mary Tudor, widow of Louis XII; then of Catherine of Arragon, styled ‘Princess Dowager’. ΘΚΠ 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 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Ep. to Hen. VIII Your..most entirely beloved suster quene Mary douagier of France. 1542 Chronicle of Fabyan II. 488 In Ianuary dyed lady Katherine princes dowager [printed -yer]. 1558 W. Forrest Hist. Grisild the Second (1875) 93 They gaue her to name Ladye Douager. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream i. i. 157 I haue a widowe aunt, a dowager, Of great reuenew. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 177 Respecting this our Marriage with the Dowager, Sometimes our Brothers Wife. View more context for this quotation 1701 London Gaz. No. 3745/2 She was accompanied by the Dutchess of Savoy, her Mother, and by the Dutchess-Dowager. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xiii. 355 The two Dowagers, his Mother and Grandmother, having great Joyntures out of the Estate. 1762 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII II. 26 He espoused Eleanor dowager of William earl of Pembroke. 1809 Naval Chron. 22 276 Mrs. Innes, Dowager, of Sandside. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 452 A marriage with of of Duke Richard's daughters would have seemed a more natural alliance for the young conqueror than a marriage with their dowager aunt. < as lemmas |
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