Possessives

• hump: The deformity is responsible for some cases of so-called dowager's hump.

Adjective modifier

• old: She would need lots of cats, the cliché of the crazy old dowager.

• elderly: She feels, in comparison, like a dreary, elderly dowager.

Modifies a noun

• duchess: Dowager duchesses no longer squabble in foyers and instead are prepared to pay for copies of the unending new titles on the news-stands.

• queen: The dowager queen was remarried to the powerful Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus.

Noun used with modifier

• empress: The next day the empress dowager ordered that all foreigners be killed.