matron

A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.

grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother

A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.

But there’s no bottome, none / In my Voluptuouſneſſe : Your Wiues, your Daughters, / Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp / The Ceſterne of my Luſt, and my Deſire / All continent Impediments would ore-beare / That did oppoſe my will.

“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].

A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.

the matron of a school or hospital

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.

Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.

A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.