The ie is a patriarchal household and is considered to consist of grandparents, their son, his wife and their children.

Each village was centered around a single patriarchal household.

Thus the whole country was in fact the patriarchal household of the pharaoh.

The transformation of the patriarchal, three-generation rural household to a modern, urban family of two adults and two children attests to the great changes that Soviet society had undergone since 1917.

Because of their status, they are entitled to establish a patriarchal household with a Wife, a Handmaid if necessary, Marthas (female servants) and Guardians.

This Act imposed a patriarchal nuclear household onto many matrilineal Native societies, in which women had controlled property and descent.

Ninth-century writers when they wanted a metaphor (and a paradigm) for the system at work invoked the familia: the patriarchal household, the big house (as Dhuoda called it):- the palace.

Byrd wanted a patriarchal household, while Lucy wanted to have some power over household matters.

Ms. Thomas grew up in a privileged, patriarchal household where women's sexual thoughts, much less their vaginas, were not discussed.

Walker, the play's most singularly dynamic character, plays the piano, filling a bigoted white man's patriarchal household with a liberating sound.