Matron vs Natron - What's the difference?
matron | natron |
A mature woman; a wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:your wives, your daughters, your matrons , and your maids
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron ; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
A housekeeper; especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution; a head nurse in a hospital.
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(mineralogy) A crystalline mixture of hydrous sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, with the chemical formula Na]]2CO3· 10[[water, H2O.
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 242:
*:You know the mysterious idols they were supposed to set up to worship in their chapters – were they really human heads treated with natron after the Ancient Egyptian pattern – idols of Persian or Syrian provenance?