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Definitions
a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
Word origin
From matriarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office), modeled after patriarchate.
Used in a sentence
“Like Byron's seraglio, the boudoir is a matriarchate guarded by eunuchs […].”
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