Both Uses of
patriarchy
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and the other with prim Lombardies.†
Chpt 1 *
- But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce "Master's coming."†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(patriarchy) a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women