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Matronage   Listen
noun
Matronage  n.  
1.
The state of a matron.
2.
The collective body of matrons. "Can a politician slight the feelings and convictions of the whole matronage of his country?"






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"Matronage" Quotes from Famous Books



... my love, one day soon be surrounded with the honour which arises neither from the toils of the mechanic who decks her apartment, nor from the silks and jewels with which your generosity adorns her, but which is attached to her place among the matronage, as the avowed wife of England's noblest earl? 'Tis not the dazzling splendour of your title that I covet, but the richer, nobler, dearer coronet of your beloved name, the precious privilege of fronting the world as ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson



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