All 3 Uses of
patriarch
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- This patriarch now presented himself before Hepzibah, clad in an old blue coat, which had a fashionable air, and must have accrued to him from the cast-off wardrobe of some dashing clerk.†
Chpt 4 *
- In other respects, it was a substantial, jolly-looking mansion, and seemed fit to be the residence of a patriarch, who might establish his own headquarters in the front gable and assign one of the remainder to each of his six children, while the great chimney in the centre should symbolize the old fellow's hospitable heart, which kept them all warm, and made a great whole of the seven smaller ones.†
Chpt 13
- "I never knew Miss Hepzibah so forgetful before," said the patriarch to himself.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
a usually elderly man who is the leader of a group such as a family or tribe