Only in early Plantagenet times did 'virgins' shew their hair and matrons did not; by now it was normal for the tresses to be concealed behind the wimple on the rear of the hood.

They scatter in all directions hiding from the blood-thirsty matrons while searching for escape from the locked-down manor they're trapped in.

He always brought his mother to church, and was the pride of all the matrons.

Then, beside the pillow of what seemed to be the dead body, suddenly appeared a fair youth in a Roman habit, who, to the accompaniment of a harp which he himself played, sang in a sweet and clear voice these two stanzas:While fair Altisidora, who the sportOf cold Don Quixote's cruelty hath been,Returns to life, and in this magic courtThe dames in sables come to grace the scene,And while her matrons all in seemly sortMy lady robes in baize and bombazine,Her beauty and her sorrows will I singWith defter quill than touched the Thracian string.

It was a matter of public knowledge, they said, that after the conquest of King William, his Norman followers, elated by so great a victory, acknowledged no law but their own wicked pleasure, and not only despoiled the conquered Saxons of their lands and their goods, but invaded the honour of their wives and of their daughters with the most unbridled license; and hence it was then common for matrons and maidens of noble families to assume the veil, and take shelter in convents, not as called thither by the vocation of God, but solely to preserve their honour from the unbridled wickedness of man.

Typical, cheap, whitesploitation, low budget sleaze filled with unattractive female harness bulls, prison matrons and tired looking, road worn actors.

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