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Matronly meaning
In the capacity of a matron; serving as a housekeeper or head nurse. | Exuding the authority, wisdom, power, and intelligence of an experienced woman. | Having the appearance of a mature woman, often of larger physical stature and somewhat unkempt or dowdy.
Example sentences (4)
I did not realise what a specifically intense social period that was: the last wedding I attended was two years ago and I was no longer one of the young party people, but a matronly aunt.
His secretary, Elizabeth, was a matronly, white woman who believed that he was a god.
Her uncoiffed, matronly appearance often provoked jokes that she looked more like the boyish president’s mother than his wife.
This is her one active mythic role: once Apollo and Artemis are grown, Leto withdraws, to remain a dim Hesiod, Theogony 406; "dark-veiled Leto" ( Orphic Hymn 35, To Leto and benevolent matronly figure upon Olympus, her part already played.