mother-of-the-family

Updated: May 2, 2025

She wore a tan bombazine dress, made very plainly, and carried a roomy, worn, mother-of-the-family handbag. Ray Kennedy always insisted that Mrs. Kronborg was "a fine-looking lady," but this was not the common opinion in Moonstone.

Willa Sibert Cather - The Song of the Lark