† dowrier Sc. Obs.
Also dowariar.
[a. F. douairière a woman enjoying a dowry, a dowager, f. douaire dower, dowry.]
= dowager.
| 1533 Wriothesley Chron. (1875) I. 18 To be called Ladie Katherin, wife of Prince Arthur, dowarie[r] of Englande. 1555 Sc. Acts Mary (1597) §28 In presence of the Queenis Grace, Marie, Queene Dowrier [ed. 1566 Dowariar], and Regent of Scotland. 1566 Hist. Est. Scot. in Wodr. Soc. Misc. (1844) 82 The Queene Dowrier sent forth a trumpett out of the Castle. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 414 Mary Quene of Scotland and Douariar of France. |