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Webster 1913 Edition
Matron
1.
A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
Your wives, your daughters,
Your
Your
matrons
, and your maids. Shakespeare
Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a
matron
before she was a mother. Fuller.
2.
A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital;
as, the
. matron
of a school or hospitalJury of matrons
(Law)
, a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.
Webster 1828 Edition
Matron
MAT'RON
,Noun.
An elderly married woman, or an elderly lady.