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No, never heard of it. Dowager is a perfectly good word. The wife of a Duke is a Duchess. When the Duke dies, his son becomes the new Duke, and daughter-in-law is the new Duchess. The old Duke's widow becomes the Dowager Duchess. If she moves to a different house on the Ducal estate, that house is called the Dower House.

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