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materfamilias

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Materfamilias (noun) means the woman who heads a family or household.

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The woman who heads a family or household.

"The materfamilias and her daughters do a good deal of the housework, and even open the front door on occasion." — Luigi Villari, Italian Life in Town and Country (1903)

"That my old-country materfamilias is actually Chinese--Mandarin Chinese, yet--is a negligible discrepancy." — Mary Shen Barnidge, Who Killed the Dragon Lady (1990)

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