Both Uses of
patriarch
in
Bleak House
- He has his favourite box, he bespeaks all the papers, he is down upon bald patriarchs, who keep them more than ten minutes afterwards.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- "There's your fare!" says the patriarch to the coachman with a fierce grin and shaking his incapable fist at him.†
Chpt 31-33
Definition:
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(patriarch) a usually elderly man who is the leader of a group such as a family or tribe