matronhood
- 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
We soon discovered that, to Aunt Olivia, Mr. Malcolm MacPherson represented a merely abstract proposition—the man who was to confer on her the long-withheld dignity of matronhood.
From Chronicles of Avonlea by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
You find little Augusta changed but slightly in matronhood in the fine pastel by Copley.
From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse
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 Buxton, Robert Hugh
