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• n  a female head of a family or tribe

• The Blackwells are overwhelming, especially the materfamilias, known as Maj (short for "Her Majesty").
• The Blackwells are overwhelming, especially the materfamilias, known as Maj (short for "Her Majesty").
• As before, the materfamilias-diarist has a husband, two children, temperamental Mademoiselle and house in the country on her hands.

• matriarch