Patricia Daniels, playing both a giddy poor relation and a respectable matron with a secret, acquitted herself with grace and humor.

He had expected some kind of tart from Les Halles and found a respectable Jewish matron in an unbecoming colour.

Instead, the last entry describes an evening with two respectable matrons--respectable if this diary is never published, at any rate.

Her public priesthood was reserved to respectable matrons, be they married, divorced or widowed.

'Do I understand that this respectable matron keeps an establishment, Miss Tox?'

Now back on television, she's having a go at being an utterly respectable, ultimately miserable surburban matron.

It was hosted by the magistrate's wife and attended by respectable matrons of the Roman elite.

I'm a responsible Member of Parliament, supporter of worthy causes, and you're a respectable matron and mother.

His makeup had run and he was reapplying it, and his neckline was rather more open than a respectable matron's should be.

Twenty years later, Fernanda is a respectable matron, the prosperous owner of a boutique.