as in dowager
a dignified usually elderly woman of some rank or authority
the matron firmly ordered the rowdy little boys back to their seats
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The two-year-old daughter of the steward and the matron, who were married, scampered around the wards and played with the residents.
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Half a dozen of the boldest ones took it upon themselves to defy the steward and the matron, and to circumvent the gatehouse guards, who were ostensibly there to prevent undesirable visitors.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adams is the ideal vessel for that discovery: The character is more clueless about reality than her elders, and yet her idealism is rooted in a humanism that Streep’s reactionary matron lacks.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The actor Ruth Gordon, now best known for playing the elder matron with a macabre edge in Harold and Maude and Rosemary’s Baby, bought the place thanks to her friend Katharine Hepburn, whose best roles Gordon wrote with her husband, Garson Kanin.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Dec. 2024
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Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Half a dozen of the boldest ones took it upon themselves to defy the steward and the matron, and to circumvent the gatehouse guards, who were ostensibly there to prevent undesirable visitors.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
Adams is the ideal vessel for that discovery: The character is more clueless about reality than her elders, and yet her idealism is rooted in a humanism that Streep’s reactionary matron lacks.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
The actor Ruth Gordon, now best known for playing the elder matron with a macabre edge in Harold and Maude and Rosemary’s Baby, bought the place thanks to her friend Katharine Hepburn, whose best roles Gordon wrote with her husband, Garson Kanin.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Matron.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/matron. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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