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Example sentences for: matron

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The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first.
First, is the reigning matron of honor moving to Bangladesh?
I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.
She already knows that I had asked someone else to stand up for me, so my question is: How do I now ask her to be my matron of honor?
But most critics regret the disappearance of the "quirky personal voice" of the original author, St. Louis society matron Irma S. Rombauer.