patresfamilias
Americannoun
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Jhabvala’s early fiction sauntered into middle-class Hindu households and wryly took the measure of their dramatic capacity: shy newlyweds and demanding mothers-in-law, pompous patresfamilias, feckless sons, and snooping aunties.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 31, 2018
Only Bryce Gill as the good brother and, at times, Philip Goodwin as various patresfamilias rise above the blustery racket that engulfs the rest of the seven-member cast.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2011
And what do our patresfamilias, the officials, the wives and daughters, do in such cases?
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Isn't it rather the fault of the audience, of your respectable residents, your patresfamilias?
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
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