A woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron.
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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