Definition of "dower-house" [dower-house]

• In Great Britain, a house provided for the residence of a widow after the estate of her husband, with its manor-house, has passed to the heir. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Pomona, looking forward as well as she was able to the time at which she should herself have departed, when her dower and dower-house would have reverted to Dolly, acknowledged that"
• "Lodge, which he would make the dower-house of Five Oaks, with the"
• "John did not live on the best of terms with his mother-in-law, who from the dower-house at Kralove Hradec, called by the"