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Definition of Protectresses
1. protectress [n] - See also: protectress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Protectresses
Literary usage of Protectresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1888)
"... Causes of Working People's Affection for Red—The Emblem of Health and the
Fruits of Toil—Ceres and Minerva their protectresses and Mother-Goddesses Wore ..."
2. A History of the Ancient Working People: From the Earliest Known Period to by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1889)
"... Affection for Red—The Emblem of Health and the Fruits of Toil —Ceres and
Minerva their protectresses and Mother-Goddesses Wore the Flaming Red—Emblem of ..."
3. Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth by Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813)
"... and you have this additional satisfaction in prospect, that as the Fair Sex
are the subject, so they will be the protectresses Burnet, Elizabeth Bury, ..."
4. Sketches of German Life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1847)
"My father let me go, but desired me to take leave of my two protectresses, and
to join him on the following day: in future I was to remain with him. ..."
5. Sketches of German Life, and Scenes from the War of Liberation in Germany by Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1847)
"My father had insisted, to the great annoyance of my two protectresses, that I
should be allowed to pay him a few visits. The first time he found me looking ..."
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