单词 | patriarchess |
释义 | patriarchessn. 1. The wife of a patriarch; a woman with the role of a patriarch. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxix. 95 She was generally saluted, The Patriarchesse. 1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 19 Sarah (if I may so call her) the Patriarchesse. 1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 199 The History of the Patriarchess of Constantinople is not so improbable. 1844 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 99 She looks like what she is—the patriarchess of a large family. 1856 J. B. Wolfsden 391 They perhaps already fancied themselves the patriarch and patriarchess of an Abrahamic household. 1912 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 17 754 He secretly consoled his wife for her ill-treatment at the hands of the patriarchess by saying that the latter was old and barked at everybody. 1978 Eng. Hist. Rev. 93 5 Heraclius's..mistress..was the mother of his daughter and known to the inhabitants of Jerusalem as the ‘patriarchess’. ΚΠ 1882 Echo 14 Apr. 4/2 Yesterday..the patriarchess of the district, attain[ed] her 100th year, being born on the 12th April, 1782. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1639 |
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