Noun:

માતૃકા,

matrons's Usage Examples:

Each boarding house has a housemistress or housemaster, a deputy housemistress or housemaster, a team of matrons (resident, day and evening) as well as tutors.

The contrast evident in the painting between the constricting dress of the matrons and the lightly dressed, quick-footed figure on the far right serves as an illustration of the virulent discussion around 1900 concerning the liberation of female clothing from the standards of propriety imposed by a reactionary bourgeoisie.

Volumnia, plus other family members and matrons of Rome, successfully entreated Coriolanus to break off his siege.

Other reforms advocated, and eventually implemented, were the appointment of matrons at police stations and of women inspectors in factories and shops, and improvements in the conditions of women prisoners.

These included:Two pretentious society matrons (Ingleton and Kenneally) and a third (Krape) who could never quite make the grade much to the delight of the other two who mocked her.

and 17 female masks (fat and thin old women, two matrons, one virgin, a bawd, a mistress, three courtesans, a lady’s maid, etc.

her tall and commanding disposition led to her playing mostly dowagers, spinsters and matrons, as well as intense Shakespearean roles.

gives a picture of Drury Lane as a district divided into particular "ladyships," analogous to "lordships" in other places, "over which matrons of known.

Punic War, the right to wear it was extended to plebeian matrons, and to freedwomen who had acquired the status of matron through marriage to a citizen.

23 men,13 little he-devils, 36 women, 12 little she-devils) Act 3: 12 whippers-in, 18 pages of the hunt Act 4: 40 harem women, 2 matrons, 6 black eunuchs.

career, her tall and commanding disposition led to her playing mostly dowagers, spinsters and matrons, as well as intense Shakespearean roles.

Wheeler called on prominent New York society matrons to support a shop in which the high-quality, custom-made goods could be sold to produce income.

"blue-rags" and the matrons, the principal and her deputy are the main disciplinarians.

Synonyms:

married woman, wife,

Antonyms:

juvenile, male, husband,