单词 | père de famille |
释义 | père de famillen. Originally and frequently in French contexts: a father, regarded as the head of a family or household. Cf. paterfamilias n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household > head of household patriarchc1200 householdera1382 paterfamiliasc1475 houseman1537 housefather1562 familist1612 genarchaship1650 family head1738 Roman father1739 père de famille1820 patron1863 mamak1884 1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 14 May in M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 124 I could not see in either his figure or face any hint of the young père de famille. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Let. in Lett. A. T. Ritchie (1924) iv. 52 The quantity of acquaintances and ½ acquaintances that as père de famille I did not care to make whole acquaintances. 1912 J. Hall Eng. & Orleans Monarchy x. 400 The père de famille..was desirous of obtaining for his son the large fortune which was supposed to be the portion of the Infanta. 1964 Observer 27 Sept. 24/6 A rather stuffy English père de famille. 1996 Church Times 11 Oct. 24/3 [The] Ishmaelite père de famille, who welcomes the fleeing Holy Family to sanctuary in Saïs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1820 |
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