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Paterfamilias   Listen
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Paterfamilias  n.  (pl. pateresfamilias)  (Rom. Law) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.






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"Paterfamilias" Quotes from Famous Books



... lounging, lookers-on. The gentleman in the rostrum is a voluble personage, with a rapidly roving eye, of preternatural quickness in picking up "bids." Attendants, shaggy men, in soiled shirt-sleeves, with saw-dusty whiskers, and husky voices. A pleasant-faced Paterfamilias, and his "Good lady," are discovered inspecting a solidly-built, well-seasoned, ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Paterfamilias" :   man, head of household, patriarch



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