patrilocal en · ADJ
Etymology
From patri- + local.
Meanings
- (not-comparable, of a married couple) living with the family of the husband.
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(not-comparable, of a people or culture) In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
Deriveds
Relateds
matrilocal · duolocal · uxorilocal · neolocal