matron
noun
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
matronhood
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a word derived from
matron.
Example Sentences
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With sister Elizabeth safely settled in matronhood, Margaret is the most eligible partygoer in Britain; it is her chore to play to the hilt the ingenue lead in an elaborate comedy of manners.
From Time Magazine Archive
Briefly I glimpse myself through her eyes: bloom off the rose, teetering on the brink of matronhood, hoping for the best.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
She was tall and spare and pale, the type of a spinster, yet with rudimentary lines and expressions of matronhood.
From The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
She paused, seeming to bring the whole twelve months of her matronhood to the examination of the problem.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
Tara was a matron getting on in years, and her matronhood had cost her dear in illness from which it had been thought she could never recover.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Robert Hugh Buxton
