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jointress
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synonyms: dowager ???
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Definition:A woman who has a jointure.*Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)*jointure: An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after husband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
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Written also jointuress.
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Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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