Meaning of Matron | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
2. A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
3. A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.
4. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.
5. A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
6. A female prison officer.
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Examples

“grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother”

“But there’s no bottome, none / In my Voluptuouſneſſe : Your Wiues, your Daughters, / Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp / The Ceſterne of my Luſt, and my Deſire / All continent Impediments would ore-beare / That did oppoſe my will.”

““A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].”

“the matron of a school or hospital”

“Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.”

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