matronly
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Matronly Elizabeth I loves the dashing Earl of Essex, but politics come first.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2019
Matronly Yvonne Vasseur, 69, has had but one consuming passion in her life: her son Jacques, now 45.
From Time Magazine Archive
Matronly, smartly dressed Elizabeth Duncan, separated from her husband when Frank was a child, held her son's hand in court, applauded when he won a case, tongue-lashed the district attorney when he lost.
From Time Magazine Archive
Matronly English dignity suffered on another occasion when a sergeant inquired of a middle-aged woman as to the number of men she could billet in her house.
From The Amateur Army by MacGill, Patrick
Why, my dearest children," Matronly Virtue exclaimed, "this anxiety to behold the young Marquis of Farintosh, whom we expect at our modest table, Mrs. Pendennis, to-day?
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vocabulary lists containing matronly
The Awakening
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Novel Study: The Awakening, Chapters 1–19
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The Red Car to Hollywood
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