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materfamilias

noun

Etymology

From Latin māter familiās (“mother of the household”).

  1. borrowed from māter familiās — “mother of the household”

Definitions

  1. The female head of a household.

    • The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion.
    • That my old-country materfamilias is actually Chinese--Mandarin Chinese, yet--is a negligible discrepancy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for materfamilias. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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