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.
p. 4.0 *patriarchal = large, old, and imposing (figuratively as a father might be seen in a family)
- 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."
p. 109.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(patriarchy) a form of social organization in which men are given more power than women
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, patriarchy can refer specifically to a form of social organization in which men head families and title is traced through the male line.