protégée

[ proh-tuh-zhey, proh-tuh-zhey ]
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noun
  1. a woman under the patronage, protection, or care of someone interested in her career or welfare.

Origin of protégée

1
1770–80; <French, feminine of protégé protégé

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How to use protégée in a sentence

  • I want you to meet two of cousin's protegees here—Bessie King and Zara, the mysterious.

  • In the little drawing-room when the door was shut, he asked gravely: "One of your protegees?"

    Five Tales | John Galsworthy
  • They are hateful, your protegees, but—je ne leur veux pas de mal.

    The Awakening | Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
  • The lottery gone, what means have we of providing for our protegees?

    Economic Sophisms | Frederic Bastiat
  • From being the protegees of an opposition clique, they became assets of the official majority of the nation.

    Queen Victoria | Lytton Strachey