Sentence:  Her father is a successful businessman and her rather forceful mother a philosophy don; and Florence&#39;s life in a <WSD>matrician</WSD> and intellectual North Oxford household - you feel sure it&#39;s in one of those substantial brick crescents next to the Parks - is vivid in its intricate particularity. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Upper class and matriarchal