replacement mother

The woman who had come into Killeen's life after Toby's mother died, a woman Toby had come to accept as nearly a replacement mother.

Albert Edward argued that Beatrice could act as replacement mother for Louis's young children and spend most of her time in England looking after her mother.

None were more curious than another Losey project, Secret Ceremony, a sapphic chamber thriller deserving of a greater camp/cult following in which Liz plays an ageing hooker adopted by elfin nutcase Mia Farrow as her replacement mother.