Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your
maids. --Shak.
Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a
matron before she was a mother. --Fuller.
2. A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic
economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital;
as, the matron of a school or hospital.
{Jury of matrons} (Law), a jury of experienced women called
to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar
of execution, and for other cognate purposes.