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Перевод: matriarch

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матриарх

Тезаурус:

1. In some cultures the mother proceeds to the status of a matriarch, when she takes on the authority of mother to the whole extended family or tribe.
2. But we now know that the dominant leader of the herd is the old matriarch and that the big bulls are forced to live out their lives in solitary splendour on the fringes of elephant society.
3. I have seen our old matriarch walk between two younger antagonists and break up a fight with a snarl, even though she was aged and barely able to walk.
4. Personally, Kael is said to dominate an awestruck group of colleagues collectively dubbed "Paulettes", but it's hard to equate the woman genially holding forth in her modest office at the New Yorker with the flinty matriarch of legend.
5. "What do they make at this place?" asks the disapproving Greek matriarch when her grandson returns from work.
6. His widowed mother Jane had a strong hand in all this and, being a pious Christian until the end (she died aged 102 in 1841), was the perfect benevolent matriarch.
7. THE MATRIARCH AND THE MEDIA
8. Could you imagine John Lydon, for instance, admitting to the importance of the matriarch like this?
9. She had been the rock of our whole family, the matriarch, a marvellous, marvellous woman.
10. "You cannot return," said this matriarch.
11. Phaedra, the all-powerful matriarch, conceives a wild passion for her stepson Hippolytus, who rejects her love with speeches hostile not just to her but to the whole erotic faculty.
12. I could try reassuring them that over in Holland, the half-century is toasted as the age of wisdom, that women are dubbed Sarah (the biblical matriarch) and men Abraham for a day of high celebration.
13. Another old London couple were dominated by a "matriarch" of a grandmother.