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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



... after what has happened, we cannot think absolutely impossible, though the augury is to be abominated, and the event deprecated with our most ardent prayers. Let us suppose, then, that our gracious sovereign was sacrilegiously murdered; his exemplary queen, at the head of the matronage of this land, murdered in the same manner; that those princesses whose beauty and modest elegance are the ornaments of the country, and who are the leaders and patterns of the ingenuous youth of their sex, were put to a cruel and ignominious death, with hundreds of others, mothers and daughters, ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12) • Edmund Burke



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