dowagedowage means dower; dowry.EtymologyFrom Old French douage, from douer + -age, from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”). By surface analysis, dow + -age.noundower; dowry.“Leland, living at the time, is a good authority; and he describes Corsham as “a good uplandish toun, wher be ruines of an old maner place: and therby a park wont to be yn dowage to the Quenes of Englande.”