Meanings
noundowagerism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe status of a dowager.
mansions that have passed away into dowagerism
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
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