dowagerism

noun

dowagerism

noun

Etymology From dowager + -ism.

1

The status of a dowager.

mansions that have passed away into dowagerism1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

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