| Its chief importance is the prominence given to the materfamilias. |
| In Mr. Konchalovsky's film Jill Clayburgh plays a Manhattan journalist who treks into the deep Louisiana bayou to interview relatives, among them a flinty materfamilias played by Barbara Hershey. |
| On visiting the Ancestral Perch last weekend, the pending ethics upgrade of our electricity was discussed with the materfamilias. |
| Camille served as materfamilias to the group of troubled boys — there were no more than 4 to 6 fighters in residence at any one time — teaching them manners and how to do laundry. |
| In the first case, the wife became a materfamilias while in the second she was simply an uxor. |
| But she is materfamilias to the dozens of other chefs who are rapidly turning vegetables into, as it were, the cash cow of the cookbook trade. |
