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Перевод: matron

[существительное]
замужняя женщина; мать семейства; матрона ; сестра-хозяйка ; заведующая хозяйством; экономка ; кастелянша

Тезаурус:

1. The way to convince this Matron of my mother's extreme need of a hospital bed is not through any show of carelessness on my part.
2. "Your own life to lead," said the Matron, Miss Cress, startlingly smart in navy blue, with a chiffon blouse.
3. "If the creature dies there will be no point in anyone coming - and no picture in the paper for you," replied Matron sternly.
4. But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too, and she had climbed out again, fresh and free, to become the matron saint of women in childbirth.
5. "For ninety," the Matron said, "you have a most agile mind."
6. "This is preposterous," sighed Matron.
7. This turned out to be a male stripper club ("Not naked!" said one matron, with Mid-Western propriety).
8. Not all the content is quite so melodramatic, and the same filmmaker's Our Little Errand Boy (1905) is a fabulous slapstick comedy about a plucky prankster who terrorizes his neighbourhood and, when pursued by the vicar, the shopkeeper, the matron and various others, locks them all behind the wire mesh of a chicken run.
9. Endill was wandering about hunting for his friends when he heard Matron's voice behind him.
10. Matron again helped pupils when the Headmaster wasn't looking.
11. I'll fix it for you with Matron."
12. The matron of a residential home, talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often: "It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence."
13. Alison Fiske plays the housekeeper Mrs Pearce like the brisk and plummy matron of an exclusive girls' boarding school, while Robin Bailey offers continuous delight as a ripe and fruity Col Pickering, finding humour in even the most unpromising lines.