patresfamilias

[ pey-treez-fuh-mil-ee-uhs, pah-, pa- ]

noun

a plural of paterfamilias.

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How to use patresfamilias in a sentence

Isn't it rather the fault of the audience, of your respectable residents, your patresfamilias?
The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoevsky
And what do our patresfamilias, the officials, the wives and daughters, do in such cases?
The Possessed | Fyodor Dostoevsky

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