What is "matriarchies"

Usage examples of "matriarchies".

Bennett had been taken in when his sailing guild could no longer care for hima tradition long abandoned by other matriarchies, but proudly maintained by Lamatia.

Of the seventeen major, and ninety minor matriarchies in Port Sanger, Lamatia was among the most prominent.

Perkinism appealed to small matriarchies who felt obstructed by established lines.

Here in Long Valley, important matriarchies built their citadels near their fields or pastures, leaving towns to small homesteads, sometimes derisively called microholds.

The hive matriarchies of Long Valley had become involved in a far more brazen scheme: kidnapping the Interstellar VisitorRennaright out of the hands of the council in Caria City.