For my own part, I started a mental list of the qualities I shared with Melville: same astrological sign, second son in a matriarchal family, grandiose ideas about art.

Her attempt to turn her newsroom into a matriarchal family failed because of some fatal errors in concept and execution.

EDAVANA is also a matriarchal family in kanipayyur.

C. V.'s mother, Parvathi Pillai, was a scion of an ancient matriarchal family.

The group claimed official standing under the traditional Lakota Treaty Councils, representing the traditional Tiyóšpaye (matriarchal family units).

His matriarchal family currently runs the Cape Cod Sea Camps situated on the Cape Cod Bay.

In Sylvie's matriarchal family, there were no men.

But that may alter the audience's perceptions of the play's stated patriarchal assumptions and the prevalence of matriarchal families.

"In a sense, it was a matriarchal family," Jeb Bush once said.

It was a matriarchal Italian family; the men made the money, but the women managed the assets.