dowagerial

English

Etymology

dowager +‎ -ial

Adjective

dowagerial (comparative more dowagerial, superlative most dowagerial)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or like a dowager.
    • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 61:
      After the kids had had their giggle, she said with her dowagerial smile, ‘And I’m told that you glory in it.’
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