| 单词 | empress dowager |
| 释义 | > as lemmasempress dowager C1. Appositive, as empress consort, empress dowager, empress queen, etc. Frequently as a title (often with the). ΚΠ 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. iv. 441 An. D. 1126 Emperour Henrie (the Kings Sonne in law) dieth... The Peeres sweare fealty to Empresse Dowager the Kings daughter. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 93 Before his bed she chose a mat that stunk, And wore a night-hood too, an empress-punk! 1748 D. Hume Let. 28 Apr. (1932) I. 130 The Empress Queen..has sent some Missionaries of Jesuites to instruct them. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 140 Charles Maximilian Von Thurn, steward of the houshold to the empress-dowager Eleanora. 1829 Encycl. Americana I. 483/1 Ottocar duke of Austria and Stiria, who made every effort to support his appointment,..especially by his marriage with the empress-widow, Margaret. 1913 H. B. Morse Trade & Admin. China (rev. ed.) ii. 38 The Empress Consort is chosen by the Emperor..from a bevy of candidates selected by his Ministers. 2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. x. 158 The Empress Dowager Cixi..appointed her nephew Guangxu as puppet emperor after her son died under mysterious circumstances. < as lemmas |
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