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Meanings of patroness (patronesses) in English
Usage of patronesses in English
1
The patronesses were in the library, a small room off the living-room.
2
The lady patronesses of the great Charity Ball were tactful and unabashed.
3
They were the patronesses of your patent ink and your wire-wove paper.
4
A very handy name for patronesses at charity bazaars, and so forth.
5
As a rule, the elderly spinsters are their patronesses, not without comment.
6
In departing, it is not considered necessary to take leave of the patronesses.
7
On these cards the names of the patronesses are also engraved.
8
Finally a number of young alumni, the four patronesses, and the girls appeared.
9
Swaby told me, the other day, that you were one of his lady-patronesses.
10
The patronesses whose names appear on the back of the cards are the subscribers.
11
Nor did I leave my kind patronesses, the Miss Guerins, without uneasiness and regret.
12
If small tables are used, the patronesses sit by themselves.
13
My 'patronesses' are, of course, too charitable to believe this.
14
Even the staid faculty, acting as patronesses, looked on with generous smiles of absolute approval.
15
The patronesses stand in line to receive the guests, bowing or shaking hands as they prefer.
16
I said that Claudia and Beatrice had constituted themselves the little lady-patronesses of the poor boy.
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