(One side effect of her medication has been a weight gain that makes Clare look matronly, and it bothers her, her parents said.)

Honey, nobody wants to look matronly.

Matriarchal or not, Ms. Fonda was determined not to look matronly.

Ginevra is last seen here on horseback, dressed for fox hunting and looking matronly, with her teenage allure a distant memory.

John Scher also did baby dolls and trapezes, but his best were in chiffon, a fabric that can sometimes look matronly.

Even then, at twenty, she was beginning to look matronly, and of course be had always been good with animals.

She added: "I don't want to look matronly.

"You want to look matronly."

In fact, she was beginnmg to look matronly.