noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
matron of honour
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At Café Europa, society matrons sip coffee after shopping.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He searched the clothes and sacks of the boys, the matrons those of the girls.
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Her husband had died in California in 1849, while Farnham worked on prison reform as the matron of Sing-Sing.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the acting master and matron , and they were not universally popular.
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The Tanganyika Two nurses were to meet the matron to whom they had been assigned.
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The woman grabbed one arm, a matron the other.