queen dowager
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Noun
queen dowager (plural queen dowagers or queens dowager or queens dowagers)
- The widow of a king.
- 1953 June, “Royal Railway Journeys”, in Railway Magazine, page 363:
- The new Royal Saloon rode roughly at first. It was originally a four-wheel carriage, and as such it was used by Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, but before the Queen [Queen Victoria] travelled in it the body was mounted on an eight-wheel frame.
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widow of a king
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