dowager

leskirouva, leski A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.
(RQ:Chmbrs YngrSt)

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts,(nb..)!”